Nance v. Waldrop

Littlejohn, Justice:

The defendant, Wallace Hesby Waldrop, is fee simple owner of a lot located at the intersection of West Lee Road and Wildwood Road in Greenville County. Plaintiff Carolyn E. Staton is the owner of an adjoining lot. The other plaintiffs own property in the residential subdivisions known as Woodland Hills and Wade Hampton Gardens. These subdivisions surround the lots owned by plaintiff Staton and the defendant.

All parties to this action have as a common grantor in their chains of title, one Robert J. Edwards. In 1938, Edwards, as committee and trustee for James M. Edwards,…