South Carolina State Highway Department v. Rural Land Co.

Bussey, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State Highway Department in a rather complex and involved condemnation case, the trial of which consumed three days of a special term of court, called for the purpose of such trial in Hampton County, commencing on May 30, 1966. The printed transcript of record contains slightly less than four hundred pages. The exhibits are numerous and at least some of them bulky and complex. The verdict in favor of the landowner was in the amount of $129,835.00.

On October 19, 1965, the Department condemned 90.5 acres of land belonging to the Rural Land Company, a…