Southern Railway Co. v. Smoak

Lewis, Justice.

This appeal involves a determination of the validity of the claim of the plaintiff Southern Railway Company to fee simple title to a strip of land forty feet wide and more than two miles in length, situate at or near Langley, in Aiken County, South Carolina, which had been used by the plaintiff for the operation of an industrial spur track from approximately 1901 to 1954. In 1954, the plaintiff discontinued the operation of its spur track and removed its property and fixtures from the land in question. Upon the assertion by the defendants, as owners of contiguous and…