Early v. South Carolina Public Service Authority

Legge, Justice.

Respondents, owners of a tract of land in Georgetown County known as Annandale, comprising about 4,500 acres, and bordering on and traversed by tidal navigable and non-navigable streams and waters tributary to the Santee River, brought this action against appellant, claiming that as the result of appellant’s works, and particularly the closing of its dam across the Santee River and the diversion thereby of a large part of the flow of that river to the Cooper River, their fast lands had been damaged, and that such damage constituted a taking of their property for public use…