Hinson v. A. T. Sistare Construction Co.

Legge, Justice.

In this action for alleged willful trespass the jury found for the plaintiff $200.00 actual and $2,000.00 punitive damages. Following an order for new trial nisi, the plaintiff remitted on the record $1,000.00 of the verdict for punitive damages. The defendant has appealed.

The facts are largely undisputed. The plaintiff owns his home at 407 Pine Street in the city of Spartanburg. For the widening of that street the State Highway Department condemned the frontage of his lot, to a depth of about fifteen feet; and on August 3, 1956, the condemnation board made its award, in the…