The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-10-13

Lana d Invest son, County Judge
ment Company, for ObioD County,
corporation ct Tennessee.
al, defendants.
To Frank Caldwell, Charley Pugh
and his wife, Mrs. Lou Pugh. N. G.
Morris and his wife, Mrs. Susie Morris,
Frank Hicock, Mile Dozier and hei
husband, Bud Dozier, Ollie Wilson, d.
Tackett, Willie Mai Heathcott and her
husband, Earl Heathcott, G. w. FORTS.
ter, Will Howard aud John Howard
In this cause it duly appearing by
affidavit duly filed that Frank Caldwell
Charley Pugh and his wife, Mrs. Lou
Pugh, N. G. Morris and his wife, Mrs.
Susie Morris, Frank Hicock, Mile
Dozier and her husband, Bud Dozier,
are non-residents OF the State OF Ten
nessee, and that after diligent inquiry
the residence OF Ollie Wilson, ID. Tack
EFT, Willie Mai Heathcott, and her hus-
band, Earl Heathcott, G. w. FORSTER,
Will Howard and John Howard can not
be ascertained, you and each OF you
are hereby notified OF the petition OF
w. Nj. Wilson, George Dahnke, w. G.
Farris, ID. NJ. Pearce, ct al, filed on
April 2, 1910, ia the County Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, held and pre-
sided over by the Hon A. J. Lawson,
County Judge for Obion County at
Union City, Tennessee, to establish a
drainage district, or drainage and leyee
district if desired or necessary, for the
reclamation OF the lands in Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, subject to and affected
by the overflow from and OF Obion River
and its tributaries in 0bion County, Ten
nessee, and pursuant to Chapter 1856
Senate Bill No. 229 OF the 1909 Printed
Acts OF the Fifty-sixth General Assem-
bly, Of the State OF Tennessee, and gen.
orally known and spoken OF as the
Drainage Law, "and which petition and
as amended is still pending in said court;
and that owing to and on account of
the great number OF petitioners and de-
PENDANTS in said cause, it would unneces-
sarily cucumber the record to name all
OF said parties in each instance, the
court has decreed that the style OF this
cause shall be w. NJ Wilson, George
Dahnke, w. G. Farris, ID. M. Pearce,
ct al, vs.. The Obion Valley Land & In
vestment Company, a corporation, ct al,
defendants; and that by proper order
and decree of the court you and
each OF you have been ordered to be
made defendants in said cause and
you and each of you are likewise
notified that the prayer of petit
ton is that the Hon. A. j. Lawson,
County Judge for Obion County, Ten
nessee, appoint disinterested and COM
petent engineer, and have placed in his
hands copy of the petition in this
cause; that said engineer be ordered
by the court to examine the lands
described in said petition, and any
other lands that will be benefited
by said improvements in the petition
mentioned or that will be necessary,
in carrying out such improvements;
that said engineer survey and locate
such drains, bitches, levees and i'm
provements as may be practicable and
best calculated to carry out the purposes
of the petition, and that will be OF pub
lie benefit or utility, or conducive to
the public health or welfare; that said
engineer be ordered to make return Of
and file his proceedings with the County
Court Clerk of Obion County, Tonnes
see, said proceedings and returns to set
forth the starting point or points, the
terminus or terminii of the bitches.
drains, levees or other improvements,
such as the Strengthening or shortening
of Obion River and its four tributaries,
fo-wit, Harris Fork, North Fork, South
Fork and Rutherford Fork of Obion
River, in Obion County, and the clean
ing out of the beds thereof, and remov-
ing drifts there-from, together with
plat and profile showing the bitches,
drains and other Improvements and the
course and length of same approximate
ly through each tract of land, as far as
may be practicable, and the total length
and the course and elevation as near as
practicable, OF all lakes, ponds and deep
'depressions in said proposed drainage
district, and the fall obtainable across
the same, and the boundaries of the
proposed drainage district, and the de-
scription OF each tract OF land therein,
as shown by the tax books of 0bion
County, Tennessee, and any other
source of reliable information, and the
names OF the owners thereof as shown
bv the tax books of Obion County, and
any other source ofreliable information,
together with the probable cost OF inn
provements and such other facts and
recommendations as said engineer may
deem material; that upon the filing OF
the returns and proceedings of said
engineer the court examine same, and,
II said plan seems to be expedient and
meets the approval of the court, that
the court order the County Court Clerk |
TO cause notice to be given by writ or
summons to be issued by said clerk and
TO be served upon the owners Of all OF
said tracts or lots Of land who are not
petitioners within the proposed drainage
district, or leyee and drainage district
as shown by the tax books of 0bion
County. Tennessee, or by affidavits duly |
filed, and upon the parties in actual
possession upon the lands or lots, and
upon any lien holder and encumbrancer
of any lands in the proposed drainage |
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