17 F3d 1434 South Carolina National Bank v. C Stone

SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff Appellee,
and
Gordon K. Billipp; Elizabeth W. Billipp, Plaintiffs,
v.
C. Donald STONE, Defendant Appellant,
and
James A. Stone; Buchanan & Company; Robert M. Buchanan;
Unico Development Se; United Medical & Surgical Supply
Corporation; C. Benjamin Smith; Ann H. Smith; Benan;
Retirement Horizons; Tom L. Sizemore; John J. Bandy;
Kenny O. Merritt; Rickey Merritt; J.W. Wakefield; Harold
Fleming; Heritage Living Centers, Incorporated; J.R.
Randall; Joanne J. Randall; Parker & Kotouc; Thomas O.
Kotouc; Low & Furby, a Partnership; Whiteside, Smith,
Jones & Duncan, a Partnership; May Zima & Company,
individually and as a Class Representative of a Defendant
Class; Horace C. Smith, Defendants.

No. 93-1557.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Submitted Jan. 25, 1994.
Decided Feb. 9, 1994.

17 F.3d 1434
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Spartanburg. William B. Traxler, Jr., District Judge. (CA-88-791-7-21)

C. Donald Stone, appellant pro se.

William Llewellyn Pope, Pope & Rodgers, Columbia, SC; David Russell Donaldson, Ritchie & Rediker, Birmingham, AL, for appellee.

D.S.C.

DISMISSED.

Before PHILLIPS and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

1

Appellant appeals the district court's order granting partial summary judgment to South Carolina National Bank. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This Court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 (1988), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292 (1988); Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

2

We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED