The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-09-08


vs. see, before the
The 0bion Valley Hon. A. j Law
Land & Invest son, County Judge
ment Company, for 0bion County,
corporation ct Tennessee.
al, defendants.
To John A. Wright, Mrs. NJ. E. Cald-
well, Mrs. 0cie Adams. Jack Mcdonald,
Mrs. Emma Mcdonald, Mrs Callie V.
Boyle and her husband G. O. Boyle,
Etheldred A. Morris, Mrs. Fannie Tim
mons and her husband w. B. Timmons,
B. f. Chambers, Charles Wilson, Jr.,
Mrs Mackey MCGOWAN and her hus-
band Walter MCGOWAN, Helen S. Dunn
and her husband G. N. Dunn, Louis
Medley, James Jackson, Mrs Maria
Head and her husband Henry Head,
Frank Benton, Mrs. Matte Laden and
her husband w. s. Laden, Pink Hutch
erson, Maggie Hutcherson, Bud Jack
son, James Thomas, Sam Spratt, L. H.
Hurt, The Chicago, st. Louis 4 New
Orleans Railroad Company, a non-resi-
dent corporation, organized under the
laws OF Tennessee and other States, but
having no Office within the State OF Ten
nessee, John w. Taylor, William Bry-
ant r. r. Swittenberg, Trustee for the
Citizens Bank Of Hattiesburg, Missis-
sippi, The Citizens Bank, of Hatties-
burg, Mississippi, a corporation with its
situs or principal place OF business in
the city of Hattiesburg, State OF Missis-
sippl, The Union Central Life Insurance
Company, corporation with its princi-
pal Office in the city OF Cincinnati, State
OF Ohio, ]. X. Clark, Trustee for the
Union Central Life Insurance Company,
corporation, being the same corpora
ton last above named; Mrs. Lera Jordan
and her husband Loless Jordan, The
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, corporation having its prin-
cipal office or place of business in the
city of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin,
IL. ID. Fuzzell, Daniel Wheelan, John
X. Thomas, Thomas H. Johnson, J. A.
Calhoun, Joseph Roberts, The United
States Trust Company, a corporation
with its principal office or place of bust
ness in the city of New York, State of
New York, The Central Trust Company
OF New York, corporation with its
principal office or place OF business in
the city of New York, State of New
York, The Farmers Loan and Trust
Company of New York, corpora
ton with its principal Office or
place Of business in the city
of New York, State Of New York, The
First National Bank of Fulton, Ken
lucky, a corporation with its principal
office or place of business in the town
OF Fulton, State of Kentucky Frank
Oliver, N. g. Morris and James GIas-
Cow
In this cause it duly appearing by
affidavit duly filed that you and each of
you are non-residents of the State of |
Tennessee, and you and each of you |
are hereby notified of the petition of
w. NJ Wilson, George Dahnke, w. G.
Farris, d. NJ. Pearce, ct al, filed on
April 2, 1910, in the County Court of
Obion County, Tennessee, held and pre-
sided over by the Hon. A. ]. Lawson,
County Judge for Obion County at
Union City, Tennessee, to establish a
drainage district, or drainage and levee
district if desired or necessary, for the
reclamation of the lands in 0bion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, subject to and affected
by the overflow from and of 0bion River
and its tributaries in Obion County, Ten
neSsee, and pursuant TO Chapter 1856
Senate Bill No. 900 Of the 1909 Printed
Acts of the Fifty-sixth General Assem-
bly, of the State of Tennessee, and gem
orally known and spoken of as the
Drainage Law, ''and which petition and
rs 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. M. Wilson, George
Dahnke, w. G. Farris, ID. NJ Pearce,
ct al, VS.. The Obion Valley Land Il In
Vestment Company, corporation, ct al. !
and that by proper order :
and decree Of the court you and :,
each OF you have been ordered to be !
indue u6IeuuduJS Ill Sdlu CduSe, anu n
you and each of you are likewise
notified that the prayer of petit !
ton is that the Hon. A. j, Lawson, :
County Judge for 0bion 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 !
or that will be necessary, +.
in carrying out such improvements !
that said engineer survey and locate
such drains, bitches, levees and inn
provements as may be practicable and :
best calculated to carry out the purposes /.
Df 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
md file his proceedings with the County "
Court Clerk Of Obion County, Tennes- .
see, said proceedings and returns to set
iorth the starting point or points, the
or terminii of the bitches, "
Trains. leyees or other improvements,