Sloan v. State Highway Department

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabeer.

By an Act of 1924 (33 Stat. at Barge, p. 1193), the Legislature created a state-wide connected system of hardsurface and other types of public roads, to be constructed and maintained by the State Highway Department. Of the roads designated by the Act to be hard surfaced in Greenville County is one “from end of pavement near Greenville southeasterly along Route No. 2 by way of Maul-din, Simpsonville to the Laurens County line near Fountain Inn.”

The petitioners, property owners or taxpayers residing on or along Route 2 have instituted…