Ankrim v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Moss, Chief Justice.

Norman E. Ankrim and Flelen A. Ankrim are the owners of certain property in Ridgeland, South Carolina, upon which they operate a motel. Their property adjoins the western boundary of the right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 17, which said highway is a part of the State highway system. At the point where Highway No. 17 passes in front of the motel, the thoroughfare is paved and has four traffic lanes as well as curbs, gutters and sidewalks. An unimproved strip' of land, a part of the right-of-way of the State Highway Department, varying in width from 32 feet to approximately…