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DESCENDANTS OF BULLOCH, BUSSEY & CO. v. FOWLER

No. S96A0690.

475 S.E.2d 587 (1996)

267 Ga. 79

DESCENDANTS OF BULLOCH, BUSSEY & COMPANY et al. v. FOWLER et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

September 9, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Smith, III, Atlanta, Thomas R. Morgan, Jr., Woodbury, for Descendants of Bulloch, Bussey & Co.

Tyron C. Elliott, Tyron Elliott-Trial Lawyer, Manchester, Joseph L. Waldrep, Hatcher Stubbs Land Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, Thurman E. Duncan, Hoke J. Thomas Jr., Duncan, Thomasson & Acree, LaGrange, Jerry W. Loftin, Manchester, for Timothy Lee Fowler.

SEARS, Justice.

This appeal concerns competing claims to an abandoned railroad right-of-way. The dispositive issue is whether deeds to the appellees that designated the railroad right-of-way as a boundary conveyed the grantor's fee title to the centerline of the right-of-way to the appellees or whether the deeds only conveyed fee title up to the right-of-way. We conclude that the deeds transferred fee title to the centerline of the right-of-way, and that the trial...

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