The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-06-18
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
E. C. Elder, ct al. VS.. Allen Keath-
lev, ct al

E. C. Elder, ct al. VS.. Allen Keath-
ley, ct al.
In the County Court of Obion
County, Tennessee, before the Hon
orable George R. Kenney, County
Judge for Obion County, Tennessee.
To Mrs. Lilly Smith and her hus-
band Will Smith; John A. Hutchi-
son; ]. S. Roberts; Carl Wade; The
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, a corporation, with
it's main situs at Milwaukee, Wis
consin; The Prudential Insurance
Company of America, a corporation,
with it's main situs at Newark, New
Jersey.
In this cause it duly appearing by
affidavit that you and each of you
are non-residents of the State of
Tennessee, you are therefore hereby
notified of the Petition of E. c..
Elder, ct al. filed on the 10Th day
of April, 1915, in the County Court
of Obion County, Tenn, before the
Honorable George R. Kenney, Coun-
ty Judge for Obion County, Tenn,
to establish Drainage District for
the reclamation of certain lands and
realty in the Eighth Civil District
of Obion County, Tennessee, later on
herein described, subject to and af-
fected by the overflow from and of
Rutherford Fork of Obion River and
it's tributaries, pursuant to Chapter
1876, Senate Bill No. 229, of the
1909 Acts of the Legislature of Ten
nessee, and amendments thereto,
generally known as the Drainage"
laws of Tennessee, and that said
Petition is still pending in Court;
that on account of the number of
Petitioners and Defendants in this
cause it would unnecessarily en-
cumber the record to name all of
said parties in each instance, and
which the Court has decreed; that
the Court has decreed that the style
of this cause from this time shall
be as above styled in this notice;
that by proper order and decree of
the Court you, and each of you, as
we'll as all resident Defendants, have
been ordered to be made Defendants
in said cause; and you and each of
you are hereby notified that the
prayer of said petition is, that the
Court appoint disinterested and
competent engineer, and have placed
in his hands copy of said petition,
and that said engineer be ordered
by the Court to examine the lands
described in the petition, and any
other lands that will be benefited
by said improvements, or necessary
in carrying out such improvements,
and survey and locate such drains,
bitches, levees and improvements as
may be practicable and best calcu-
lated to carry out the purposes of
the petition, and that will be of
public benefit or utility, or con-
ducive to the public health or well
fare; that said engineer be ordered
to make return of and file his pro-
ceedings with the Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court of Obion County, Tennes-
see, said proceedings and returns to
set forth the starting point or points,
the route or routes, the terminus or
termini of the bitches, drains, levees
and other proposed improvements,
of every nature, together with a
plat and profile, showing the bitches,
drains, levees and other improve
ments, the course and length of
same approximately through each
tract of land, as far as may be prac-
ticable, and the total length, and
course, and elevation, as near as
may be practicable, of all lakes,
ponds and deep depressions in said