South Carolina State Highway Department v. Sharpe

Bussey, Justice.

This is a highway condemnation case arising out of the acquisition in Anderson County of a portion of the right-of-way' for the construction of the Interstate Highway designated as 1-85. A trial de novo was held before his Honor Judge Spruill and a jury and upon this trial one of the attorneys for the landowner in his opening argument to the jury said:

“You should be fair to the landowner, to the state government, and to the Federal government.”

Counsel for the Highway Department objected to the reference to the Federal government. Thereupon, in the presence, of the jury,…