Ford v. Georgetown County Water & Sewer District

This is an appeal from the order of the circuit court ordering the appellants, lot owners in Hagley Estates Subdivision (Hagley Estates), to connect to the Georgetown County Water and Sewer District (District). We affirm.

Hagley Estates was developed in the mid-1960’s by a developer which later filed for bankruptcy. The lots were publicly auctioned. In 1967, the General Assembly created the District through Act No. 733, 1967 Acts 1539 to acquire, construct and operate a water and sewer system. The service area would be the County of Georgetown excluding the City of Georgetown and the Town of…