Robinson v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Taylor, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an Order of the Honorable John Grimball, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, in which de fendant’s motion to bring in the Town of Forest Acres as a party defendant in order to file a cross-complaint against said Town was refused.

Plaintiffs are the owners of approximately twenty and one-half acres of land on the south side of Forest Drive, a South Carolina State Highway in the Town of Forest Acres which is adjacent to the City of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that their land has been damaged as a result of changes made in the drainage system by the…