Black Family In Alabama Finally Fought Off Stranger Trying To Take Their Land After Spending 12 Years Battling In Court

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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 12, 2023

A Black family spent the past 12 years in court, fighting a stranger who was trying “to force them to sell their shares of their land in Barlow Bend, Alabama,” the Insider reports.

Under Alabama real estate law, anyone who owns interest “in a plot of land could sue the other landowners to force a sale.” In this case, James E. Deshler II

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