SC DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS & PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION v. Mooneyham

Littlejohn and Ness, Justices

(dissenting) :

*208The opinion printed below was prepared for adoption by the entire court. A majority having now taken the contrary view, the same, with minor modifications, is now printed as our dissent.

In this opinion we deal with three land condemnation cases tried separately before juries and the same judge during two one-week terms of common pleas court in Sumter County. The appeals involve three separate landowners, one of whose case involved two separate parcels of realty. The actions concerned the right of eminent domain exercised by the South Carolina…