Horry County v. Tilghman

Cureton, Judge:

This appeal involves the question of whether appellants, members of the Tilghman family (Tilghmans), own an interest in a thirty-nine acre tract of submerged land constituting a portion of Waites Island 1 located in Horry County, South Carolina. The County of Horry, in the exercise of eminent domain, has taken a fifty-acre tract of land owned by the Tilghmans and contiguous to the tract in dispute for the construction of a navigation channel known as the Little River Stabilization Project. The County, claiming a right to the contiguous tract, proposes to raise it above the high…