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S.C. STATE HWY. DEPT. v. SHARPE

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242 S.C. 397 (1963)

131 S.E.2d 257

The SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, Appellant, v. W.K. SHARPE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 16, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and J. McNary Spigner, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and Francis R. Fant, and Paul K. Rogers, of Anderson.

Messrs. Watkins, Vandiver, Freeman & Kirven, of Anderson, for Respondent.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and J. McNary Spigner, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and Francis R. Fant, and Paul K. Rogers, of Anderson, for Appellant, in Reply.

May 16, 1963.

BUSSEY, Justice.

This is a highway condemnation case arising out of the acquisition in Anderson County of a portion of the right-of-way for the construction of the Interstate Highway designated as I-85. A trial de novo was held before his Honor Judge Spruill and a jury and upon this trial one of the attorneys for the landowner in his opening argument to the jury said:

"You should be fair to the landowner, to the state government...

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