State v. Griffith

This action involves the conflicting claims of the State of South Carolina (appellant) and Jack W. Griffith (respondent) to, an area of tidelands, approximately 59 acres, adjacent to Wappoo Creek in Charleston County, the area having been in Berkeley County in colonial times. Respondent’s claim of title to such tidelands rest solely upop a grant from the Lords Proprietors in the year 1717 to a grantee under whom respondent claims. Appellant contends that no grant relied upon by respondent conveyed such tidelands and that the title thereto remains in the State. Upon trial, and at the…