Day Four Oconee civil court trial

By late morning, the plaintiff had called four witnesses to further make its case for damages as the result of a property deal in Seneca.  Unlike the early stages of the Common Pleas trial, the four witnesses this morning were on the stand for only a short time.  One of the four, real estate broker Terri Anderson was a recall witness.  On direct testimony, Anderson said honesty, care, and the obligation to disclose are basic tenets of her profession.  And she testified that had her partnership known about property erosion, as she put it, “It would have changed everything.”  That was an allusion to whether she and her group would have bought the property in a transaction that involved another broker-affiliated group.  Ross Cooke, representing the company Vortex Lining Systems, gave plaintiff’s side testimony this morning on a near $1.5M proposal dated a month ago to rid pipes leading to Lake Keowee of silt, rocks, and other debris.  The jury viewed a snapshot of one of the pipes that contained so much debris, witness Cooke testified, that the bottom of the pipe was invisible.