Georgia community fights rail company trying to seize property through eminent domain

The thought of losing an inch of his family's 600-acre property makes Mark Smith and his wife, Janet, wince.

"This is not the first time that someone has came after this land. My daddy struggled to keep it. And now here we are," Smith said. "I can't believe it, 100 years later, still struggling to hold onto it. When will it be over?"

Their land in Sparta, Georgia, has been an heirloom for nearly a century. Smith's grandfather, a sharecropper, traded in his cotton harvest for the property in the Jim Crow-era South.