David Savage, a Charleston lawyer, took care when he, his wife Lisa and other family members bought 4.3 undeveloped acres on the eastern edge of the property in 1996. Savage and his wife lived about a mile away and thought the property would make a nice investment, and a nice place for a new home one day.
Savage even required the sellers to arrange for an archaeological survey. He noted that the Pinckney family previously sold the 4.3 acre tract to another set of buyers in 1966, and no one said anything at that time.
Still, when the lawsuit arose, Savage put his title insurance company and others on notice. “I didn’t have a sense of peace,” he said. “Worry doesn’t get you anywhere … (but) the fear was, ‘Hey, I might lose my household.’ “
“I knew somebody was going to be sadly disappointed, but there was nothing else I could have done,” he said.
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