Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1917-08-17
NONRESIDENT Notice.

Gu dis.
In County Court of Weakley County,
Tennessee. =
To W. A. Brown, alias Billie Brown:
In this cause, it duly appearing
by affidavit duly filed, that you are
Ia nonresident of the state of Tennes-
see and a resident of the state of
Kentucky, so that the ordinary pro-
cess of law cannot be served on you |;
that you are the owner of tract of
about 20 acres of land located within
the Mud Creek Drainage District No.
g, located and established in this
cause, it being the tract shown at
page so IL of exhibit C of the engi-
neer's report filed herein; that you
are not legally and duly before the
court in this cause; that by order
and decree of the court herein made
on Aug. IA, 1917, and pursuant
thereto, you are hereby notified to
appear before the County Court of
Weakley County, Tennessee, at the
courthouse in Dresden, Tennessee,
presided over by Hon. G. T. Mayo,
Judge of said court, on the first
Monday in September, 1917, to-wit:
SEPTEMBER 3, 1917,
and make defense to the petition
and all amendments thereto filed in
this cause, and show cause, if any
you have, why this cause and all the
DEGREES and orders heretofore made
herein should not be revived against
you, and why you should not be
made defendant herein; and you
are further hereby notified of the
petition of J. A. Freeman and others,
filed herein on the 18th day of June,
1915, in said court before the said
judge thereof; that said petition was
amended on Oct. Is, 1916, and that
on the 18th day of January, 1917,
said petition was further amended,
and on said date, by decree of said
court in this cause, the Mud Creek
Drainage District No. 8 was located
and established by said court, pur-
suant to the drainage laws of the
state of Tennessee; that by decree Of
said court this cause was styled J.
A. Freeman ct ais, VS.. o. r. Beard
ct ais; that said cause and petition
are still pending in said court; that
pursuant to a decree of said court in
said cause so appointing him, W. C.
Kelly has prior to the decree estab-
fishing said district, filed his report,
returns and proceedings herein as
such engineer, which report, as
amended, has been by the court du-
ly approved and confirmed as pro-
vided by law; that purpose and pray
er of said petition, and the recon-
mendation of said engineer in his
said report, substantially, but not in
detail, is for the organization into
a drainage district a territory stu
ated in the 14th, 10Th, 18th, 9th,
and 7th civil districts of Weakley
county, Tennessee, and subject to
and affected by the overflow from
and of Mud creek and it's tributaries
and containing 2,506 acres, more or
less; that the court appoint disin-
terested and competent engineer to
examine and survey accurately by
metes and bounds the territory de-
scribed in the petition and other ter
rltory adjacent thereto that may be
proper and necessary, survey and To-
cate such drains, bitches and i'm
provements as are best calculated to
carry out the purpose of the petition,
and make return and file his report
and proceedings with the clerk of
said court setting forth the starting
points, routes, termini, etc, of the
proposed bitches and improvements,
the fall obtainable across the dis
trict, the boundaries of the proposed
district, description of the realty
and tracts therein, together with the
probable cost Of such Improvements;
that upon the filing of said report
the court examine same and if it
meets the approval of the court that
the court approve same and fix a
day by decree for the hearing of
said petition, and cause summons to
be issued and nonresident publica-
ton to be made, respectively, and