Croker v. Town of Beaufort

Citations

• 45 S.C. 269
• 22 S.E. 885
• 1895 S.C. LEXIS 4

Syllabus

<p>Pubeic Easement — Aeeeyway—Adverse Possession — Injunction.— Where a strip of land appears on a map of a town in 1820 as an alleyway, and again on a map of same by United States direct tax commissioners between 1861-5 as an alley, but appeared on a copy of a copy of this map as a lot, for which copy the town was not shown to be responsible, and had been enclosed by fence since 1867, and conveyed by a party who had it enclosed for more than ten years, but no houses had been erected thereon, and it had not been continuously cultivated, the town is not estopped from claiming the strip as an alleyway, and preventing the erection of a house thereon by such grantee.</p>