Garraux v. City Council of Greenville
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Greenville, April, 1898. Action by Mrs. E. Garraux v. the City Council of Green-ville, for damages for changing grade of street abutting her lot.
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Before Aldrich, J., Greenville, April, 1898. Action by Mrs. E. Garraux v. the City Council of Green-ville, for damages for changing grade of street abutting her lot. From judgment of nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. ci.te: Sec. SO, 19 Stat., 106, includes change of grade: 57 A. R., 4; 15 Ohio, 458; 54 Mo., 172; 8 Barb., 95; 29 N. J. L,., 353; 50 A. D., 709. Change of grade is a '■'■taking of property:" 30 A. St. R., 832; 102 Ill., 391; 125 U. S., 161; 56 A. R., 109; 67 Ga., 388; 37 A. R., 779; 52 A. R., 420; 42 A. St. R., 149; 26 S. E. R., 341; 11 Tex. Cir. App., 596; 109 Mass., 123; 66 Mo. App.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
This is an appeal from an order of nonsuit in an action by plaintiff, the owner of a lot abutting on a street in the city of Greenville, for damages resulting from the lowering of the grade of the street by the city council. The evidence tended to show that plaintiff, in 1878, with reference to the grade of the street then established, erected a dwelling house and other improvements on said premises, and that in 1895-6, the city council, against her protests, cut down the grade of the street in front of said lot about eight feet lower…
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