RAVAN v. GREENVILLE COUNTY

No. 2052.

434 S.E.2d 296 (1993)

Robert W. RAVAN, Mavis O'Shields, Nellie E. Gillespie, and Tommy G. Fuller and Mary B. Fuller, Appellants/Respondents, v. GREENVILLE COUNTY, Morton International, Para-Chem Southern, Inc., Hoechst Celanese Corporation, J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., and Waste Management of South Carolina, Inc., Respondents. and of whom Appeal of Greenville County and Waste Management of South Carolina, Inc., are, Respondents/Appellants.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided July 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kendall Few and John C. Few; and W. Harold Christian, Jr., of Christian, Moorhead & Davis, Greenville, for appellants/respondents.

Reginald L. Foster, of Holcombe, Bomar, Wynn, Cothran & Gunn, P.A., Spartanburg; Bradford W. Wyche and William W. Kehl, both of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, Greenville, for respondents/appellants.

John B. McLeod, of Haynsworth, Marion, McKay & Guerard, Greenville; and M. Bradford Sanders, of Taft, Stellinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, OH, for Morton Intern.

Eric C. Schweitzer, L. Gray Geddie, Jr., and Ronald E. Cardwell, all of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Greenville, for Para-Chem Southern, Inc. and Hoechst Celanese Corp.

Joseph A. Rhodes, Jr., of Haynsworth, Baldwin, Johnson & Greaves, Greenville, for J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc.


CURETON, Judge:

This appeal involves four separate lawsuits which were consolidated for trial. The lawsuits arose out of the operation of a landfill by Greenville County on property leased from Carl Putnam. The landfill operated for less than six months in 1972.1 The appellant landowners sued Greenville County and the corporate respondents alleging damage to their properties, which are adjacent to or a part of the landfill site. A jury...

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