A group of landowners in Greenville County, South Carolina, have filed inverse condemnation claims against the federal government for the taking of their land abutting the 3.29-mile-long railroad corridor. The Carolina, Knoxville & Western Railway originally built the rail line in 1888. For a portion of the line, the Railroad acquired a right-of-way easement limited to railroad purposes. And, for other parts of the line, the Railroad just went ahead and built the line without any written conveyance, but by the powers authorized in its charter. Under the terms of
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