Railroad Wins Appeal to Take Generations-Old Land in Rural Georgia

Months ago, Blaine Smith was afraid that the Georgia Court of Appeals would allow a railroad company to seize part of his family’s generations-old land. That fear came true Wednesday when the court upheld a lower court’s decision to let Sandersville Railroad exercise eminent domain to take properties from several landowners in Sparta, Georgia, to […] The post Railroad Wins Appeal to Take Generations-Old Land in Rural Georgia appeared first on Capital B News.