HINES, Justice.
This case requires us to determine whether a deed conveyed fee simple title to a parcel of land or merely an easement in a quantity of earth.
In 1938, Henry Ford executed a deed conveying to the Highway Board of Georgia, and its successor in office, a parcel of land, to hold in fee simple, for the widening of Highway 17 and for the construction of an over-pass over the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The deed stated that if construction...
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