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Maya Yang

‘I want this to stay in the family’: 93-year-old US woman faces lawsuit in battle with land developer

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The lawsuit from Bailey Point Investment followed after Wright refused an initial offer of $39,000 from the company to buy her land. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A 93-year-old woman who has been a resident of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for more than 30 years is currently embroiled in a legal fight against a land development company seeking to build a residential development next to her family land.

In February, the Georgia-based land development company Bailey Point Investment filed a lawsuit against Josephine Wright, alleging that three of her items – a satellite dish, a shed and a corner of her screened-in porch – were encroaching upon the developer’s land and thus hindering the planned construction of 147 homes.

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