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In 2016, a dispute over two acres on Georgia’s Sapelo Island reached the state’s Supreme Court. Ronister Johnson, the oldest of 16 siblings, received a deed to the land in 1957. Years later, heirs of several of his siblings challenged…

In 2016, the Supreme Court of Georgia reversed a judgment awarding clear title to a two-acre parcel in Hog Hammock, a historic Gullah/Geechee community on Sapelo Island. The court found that the deed relied on to claim the land did…