Plaintiff’s witnesses:  Anderson, Stevenson, and Hutchinson

An Oconee jury heard a contractor testify that he conducted his own investigation to determine the origin of silt that penetrated a Lake Keowee cove at Seneca.  And plaintiff’s witness Danny Hutchinson said he concluded the problems were emanating across from his 123 ByPass property on the south side of the four lane highway.  Hutchinson’s testimony was preceded yesterday by those of property buyers Terri Anderson and Tommy Stevenson.  This week’s trial in the Common Pleas Court at Walhalla pits one set of realtor businesses against the other – a dispute arising from the sale of an office complex and property where the city of Seneca had been monitoring erosion and runoff problems and communicating those problems with parties involved.  The jury heard testimony that a communication from Ed Halbig, city planning and community director, in February 2020 related a decision to condemn a building on the property after there had been a partial collapse of a paved parking lot and the falling of a large tree into an adjacent creek.