Spradley v. South Carolina State Highway Department

Moss, Chief Justice.

Lizzie Mae Spradley, the respondent herein, brought this action against the- South Carolina State Highway Department, the appellant herein, under Article I, Section 17, of the 1895 Constitution of this State, to recover just compensation for the taking and damaging of her real property alleged to have been caused by the concentrated dumping and spilling of surface water thereon.

The respondent alleges in her complaint that in the fall of 1966 the appellant in the course of the widening of U. S. Highway No. 321 did certain construction and repair work to said highway in…