WRIGHT v. SCDOT

Appellate Case No. 2017-001563 Opinion No. 5921.

437 S.C. 184 (2022)

877 S.E.2d 788

Cynthia WRIGHT and Richard Wright, Appellants, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, Speedway LLC, Ashley Land Surveying, Inc., f/k/a Ashley Engineering & Consulting, Inc., and Munlake Contractors, Inc., Defendants, Of which South Carolina Department of Transportation, Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, Speedway, LLC, Ashley Land Surveying, Inc. f/k/a Ashley Engineering and Consulting, Inc. are the Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed July 6, 2022.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Randall Hood and Jordan Christopher Calloway , both of McGowan Hood & Felder, LLC, of Rock Hill, Shawn Boyd Deery , of McGowan Hood & Felder, LLC, of Columbia, and Kevin B. Smith , of Hoffman Law Firm, of North Charleston; all for Appellants.

R. Davis Howser and Jeffrey Ian Silverberg , both of Howser Newman & Besley, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent Pilot Travel Centers, LLC; Roy Pearce Maybank and Amanda R. Maybank , both of Maybank Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Transportation; Jerome Bennett Crites, III and Mary Barnwell Ramsey , both of Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, LLP, of Charleston, for Respondent Speedway, LLC; and Bruce Alan Berlinsky , of Charleston, for Respondent Ashley Land Surveying, Inc.


Cynthia and Richard Wright appeal the circuit court's orders granting summary judgment to the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), Pilot Travel Centers, Speedway, LLC, and Ashley Land Surveying (Ashley), arguing the circuit court erred in finding (1) the private entities did not owe a duty of care to the Wrights with...

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