In 2018, a gas pipeline company took an easement across a Virginia family's 560-acre property on Bent Mountain. After years of fighting over compensation, the family won a $523,000 jury award—but the company kept its right to use the land.

In 2018, a gas pipeline company took an easement across a Virginia family's 560-acre property on Bent Mountain. After years of fighting over compensation, the family won a $523,000 jury award—but the company kept its right to use the land.

A family won half a million dollars in court—but the pipeline company still owns the right to tear through their land forever.