The Western and Atlantic Railroad (the corporation existing by virtue of the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad property from the State of Georgia by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, made March 4, 1968) is authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation the title to all such real estate and other property as may be necessary or proper for the construction or maintenance of main line tracks, sidetracks, spur tracks, passing tracks, stations or station facilities, shops, section houses, pumping houses, roundhouses, pipelines, signal telegraph or telephone lines, or for the maintenance of the track or tracks of the railroad or other railroad uses, in connection with the maintenance or operation of the Western and Atlantic Railroad properties.
(Ga. L. 1918, p. 253, § 1; Ga. L. 1918, p. 254, § 1; Code 1933, § 91-301.)
Editor's notes.- The lease of the Western & Atlantic Railroad property by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, made March 4, 1968, referred to above, is found at Ga. L. 1968, p. 54, as amended by Ga. L. 1986, p. 231.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 29A C.J.S., Eminent Domain, § 23 et seq.
ALR.
- Condemnation of premises or part thereof as affecting rights of landlord and tenant inter se, 163 A.L.R. 679.
Compensation for, or extent of rights acquired by, taking of land, as affected by condemner's promissory statements as to character of use or undertakings to be performed by it, 7 A.L.R.2d 364.
Admissibility, in eminent domain proceeding, of evidence as to price paid for condemned real property during pendency of the proceeding, 55 A.L.R.2d 781.
Admissibility, in eminent domain proceeding, of evidence as to price paid for condemned real property on sale prior to the proceeding, 55 A.L.R.2d 791.
Eminent domain: possibility of overcoming specific obstacles to contemplated use as element in determining existence of necessary public use, 22 A.L.R.4th 840.
State statute of limitations applicable to inverse condemnation or similar proceedings by landowner to obtain compensation for direct appropriation of land without the institution or conclusion of formal proceedings against specific owner, 26 A.L.R.4th 68.