Case Name: Dr. A. G. HAMPTON and The Krystal Company, Petitioners v. RICHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL, and its members, Jimmy Bales, James R. Barber, Jr., A. T. Butler, Sr., John F. Camp, Leone Castles, Tom Elliott, Warren Giese, John V. Green, James C. Leventis, Billy E. Taylor and Candy Y. Waites, Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1988-07-11
Citations: 296 S.C. 72
Docket Number: 22887
Parties: Dr. A. G. HAMPTON and The Krystal Company, Petitioners v. RICHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL, and its members, Jimmy Bales, James R. Barber, Jr., A. T. Butler, Sr., John F. Camp, Leone Castles, Tom Elliott, Warren Giese, John V. Green, James C. Leventis, Billy E. Taylor and Candy Y. Waites, Respondents.
Judges: Gregory, C. J., and Finney, and Chandler, JJ., concur.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 296
Pages: 72–73

Head Matter:
22887
Dr. A. G. HAMPTON and The Krystal Company, Petitioners v. RICHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL, and its members, Jimmy Bales, James R. Barber, Jr., A. T. Butler, Sr., John F. Camp, Leone Castles, Tom Elliott, Warren Giese, John V. Green, James C. Leventis, Billy E. Taylor and Candy Y. Waites, Respondents.
(370 S. E. (2d) 714)
Supreme Court
A. Camden Lewis of Lewis, Babcock, Pleicones & Hawkins, Columbia, for petitioners.
C. Dennis Aughtry of Richland County Atty. ’s Office, Columbia, for respondents.
Ronald M. Childress, Columbia, for Concerned Citizens of Caughman Road, amicus curiae.
Heard March 7, 1988.
Decided July 11, 1988.

Opinion:
J. B. Ness, Acting Associate Justice:
We issued a writ of certiorari to review the opinion of the Court of Appeals reported at 292 S. C. 500, 357 S. E. (2d) 463 (Ct. App. 1987). After the careful consideration of the briefs and arguments, we have decided the writ was improvidently granted. We note, however, that the discussion of the so-called Fasano doctrine in the Court of Appeals' opinion is clearly unnecessary to a resolution of the issue before the court and is therefore dicta. See Johnson v. Atlantic Coast Line R.Co., 142 S. C. 125, 140 S. E. 443 (1927).
Accordingly, the writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
Writ dismissed.
Gregory, C. J., and Finney, and Chandler, JJ., concur.
Harwell, J., concurring in separate opinion.
Fasano v. Board of County Commissioners of Washington County, 264 Or. 574, 507 P. (2d) 23 (1973).