HUNT v. FORESTRY COM'M

No. 3767.

358 S.C. 564 (2004)

595 S.E.2d 846

J.W. HUNT, Jr., and William R. Hunt, Respondents, v. South Carolina FORESTRY COMMISSION, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Decided March 29, 2004.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Horner, of Columbia, for Appellant.

C. Kenneth Powell, J. Lewis Cromer and J. Philip Murphy, all of Columbia, for Respondents.


ANDERSON, J.:

The South Carolina Forestry Commission ("SCFC") appeals an order of the trial court, which held that a deed granted to the SCFC in 1937 conveying a ten-acre tract of land merely conveyed a fee simple determinable with a possibility of reverter and not a fee simple absolute. We reverse.1

FACTS/PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On January 11, 1937, The First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank of Columbia issued a...

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