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In Owens v. Canal Wood Corp., 281 S.C. 491, 316 S.E.2d 385 (1984), the Court held that a circuit court order remanding a workers' compensation case for the taking of additional testimony on the existence of an employer-employee relationship did not involve the merits of the action and was, therefore, interlocutory and not reviewable by the Supreme Court for lack of finality.
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May 14, 1984.
J. Reese Daniel, Columbia, for appellant.
J. Marvin Mullis, Jr., Columbia, for respondent.
May 14, 1984.
The appellant Canal Wood Corporation appeals from a circuit court order remanding this workers' compensation case for the taking of additional testimony on the existence of an employer-employee relationship. The order of the circuit court does not involve the merits of the action. It is therefore interlocutory and not reviewable by this Court for lack of finality. Hunt v. Whitt, 279 S.C. 343, 306 S.E.2d 621 (1983); King v. Singer Co., 276 S.C. 419, 279 S.E.2d 367 (1981).
The appeal is dismissed without prejudice. See Gunnells v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 261 S.C. 106, 198 S.E.2d 535 (1973).