Brown v. Aiken County

Lewis, Chief Justice:

This action involves the right of respondent, Aiken County, to acquire, through condemnation, the fee to a 72 acre tract of land owned by appellant, A. K. Brown and others, for use in connection with the Horse Creek Basin Waste Water Treatment project. Respondent sought to justify the acquisition of the fee to appellants’ land on- the grounds that (1) it will provide land for future expansion *10of the treatment project and (2) it will be used to deposit sluge and grit which is a by-product of the treatment process. The lower court upheld respondent’s right to acquire the…