Georgia Department of Transportation v. Jackson

RAY, Judge.

Appellee Clyde W. Jackson filed this inverse condemnation case against the Georgia Department of Transportation (“DOT”), contending that the DOT took a property interest from him, without compensation, when the DOT closed a driveway that led to his property as part of its work on Highway 113 in Bartow County. The driveway led from Highway 113 across a tract of land with no record ownership and over a railroad crossing before reaching Jackson’s property. Jackson argued that he had acquired a prescriptive easement over the driveway, including the railroad crossing, and thus had a…