Belue v. City of Greenville

Legge, Justice.

Respondent, resident owner of the property at the southwest corner of Boyce Springs Avenue and Charlotte Street, in the City of Greenville, South Carolina, brought this action under what is now Section 59-224 of the 1952 Code praying judgment in the sum of $2,500.00 for damage to his said property alleged to have resulted from the installation by the city of curbing and guttering on Charlotte Street and at its junction with Boyce Springs Avenue, whereby excessive surface water was thrown upon respondent’s lot. Timely motions for nonsuit and for direction of a verdict were made…