Milhous v. State Highway Department

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice StuicES.

This action was brought by the respondent against the State Highrvay Department plainly under the rule of Chick Springs Water Co. v. Highway Department, 159 S. C., 481, 492, 157 S. E., 842, 950, for the sum of $5,000.00 and resulted in a verdict for $1,250.00 which the lower Court refused to set aside, and also refused to grant a new trial upon grounds hereinafter alluded to. From the judgment entered thereupon this appeal was taken upon several exceptions which raise the points, briefly stated, that the al leged taking of the…