ANDERSON COUNTY v. PRESTON

Opinion No. 5490.

420 S.C. 546 (2017)

804 S.E.2d 282

ANDERSON COUNTY, Appellant, v. Joey PRESTON and the South Carolina Retirement System, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed May 31, 2017.

Withdrawn, Substituted and Refiled August 16, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Theodore Gentry , Troy A. Tessier , and Wade Stackhouse Kolb, III , of Greenville, and Alice Witherspoon Parham Casey , of Columbia, all of Wyche Law Firm, for Appellant.

Candy M. Kern-Fuller , of Upstate Law Group, LLC, of Easley, and Lane Whittaker Davis , of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Greenville, for Respondent Joey Preston.

Justin Richard Werner , of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Retirement System.


On November 18, 2008, the Anderson County Council (the 2008 Council) voted to approve a severance agreement (the Severance Agreement) for outgoing county administrator Joey Preston. Anderson County (the County) filed the instant action against Preston seeking rescission of that agreement. Following a nonjury trial, the circuit court...

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