· 11/15/1978
State v. HOLSTON LAND COMPANY, INC.
Citations
- 248 S.E.2d 922
- 272 S.C. 65
- 1978 S.C. LEXIS 382
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- finding that when read together, a grant accompanied by a legend describing a “tract of marsh land” and a plat referencing “two hundred acres of marsh land” evinced a “clear intent to convey the disputed tidelands ... to the usual low water mark”
- finding the term “marsh land” in a conveyance from the King sufficient to overcome the State’s presumptive title to land below the high water mark
- finding the term \marsh land\ in a conveyance from the King sufficient to overcome the State's presumptive title to land below the high water mark
- “The law in South Carolina is well settled that a grant conveying ‘marshland’ can give rise to private ownership of property to the mean low water mark.”
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