The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-03-22
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

w. L. Willingham, ct al. VS.. j. L.
.Mosier, ct al.
In the County Court of Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, before the Honor
able George r. Kenney. County
Judge for Obion County, Tennes-
see.
To Annie Mai Willingham, Cotys
Willingham, Jemima Willingham,
Paul Willingham, t. H. Usher and
wife, Beula Usher, E. Usher and
wife, Myrtle Usher, G. G.. Carman
and wife, Ella Carman, Harmon J..
Wilfred and wife, Lennye Wilfred,
Clyde Puryear and wife, Fronie Pur-
year, w. c. Puryear and wife, Ethel
Puryear, B. Y. Wilson and wife, Fan
ME Wilson, Edmond Puryear, How
ard Puryear, and Mrs. M. ]. Usher;
also T. H. Usher, E. Usher, G. G..
Carman and w. L. Willingham, as
executors of the last will and tesla
ment of E. C. Usher, deceased:
In this cause, it duly appearing
by affidavit, duly filed, that you, and
each of you, are non-residents of the
State of Tennessee, you are therefore
hereby notified of the Petition of w.
L. Willingham ct al. filed ON May 20,
1916, as amended, in the County
Court of Obion County, Tennessee,
before the Honorable George r. Ken
ney, County Judge for Obion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, to establish a drain
age district for the reclamation and
I,o af Ion rna1fxy in tho
Fifth and Ninth Civil Districts of
Obion County, Tennessee, and in the
Fourth and Fifth Civil Districts of
Lake County, Tennessee, under and
by virtue of the 1909 Act of the
Legislature of the State of Tonnes
see, Chapter 1856, Senate Bill No.
229, often spoken of and generally
known as the drainage law, and Acts
amendatory thereto and thereof, and
especially the Act of 1915, Chapter
No. 81, House Bill No. 571, passed
March the 30th, 1915, and approved
April the 3rd, 1915, 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 encum-
UtI JHC lCCOIu W Oil VI Ooiu
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 well
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 APP
point disinterested and competent
engineer, and have placed in his
hands a 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 i'm
provements, or proposed improve
ments, or necessary in carrying out
such improvements, and survey and
locate such drains, bitches and i'm
provements as may b, practicable
and best calculated to carry out the
purposes of the petition, and to eff
feet and bring about the drainage
and reclamation of the lands de-
scribed in this petition, or such lands
as in the judgment of this Honorable
Court should be embraced and in
cluded within the proposed drainage
district, and that will be Of public
benefit or utility, or conducive to
the public health or welfare; that
said engineer be ordered to make
return of and Ale his proceedings
xu;th no T1arLy nf hn HnYtnfu Court
Of Obion County, Tennessee, said pro-
and returns to set forth the
starting point or points, the route
or routes, the terminus or termini of
the bitches, drains and other pro-
posed improvements, of every nature,
together with plat and profile,
showing the bitches, drains and 9TH
er improvements, the course and
length of same approximately
through each tract of land, as far
as may be practicable, and the total
length, and course, and elevation, as
near as may be practicable, of all
lakes, ponds and deep depressions in
said district, or proposed district,
the fall obtainable across said dis
trict, as we'll as the boundaries of
scription of the realty and each tract
of land therein, as shown by the tax
books of Obion and Lake counties,
Tennessee, respectively, and any
other source of reliable information,
together with the probable costs. of
the proposed improvements, and also
such other facts and recommends
lions as said engineer may deem
best, or material; that upon the fill
ing of the returns of said engineer
the Court examine same, and if said
plan seems to be expedient and
meets the approval of the Court that
the Court order the Clerk to cause
notice to be given by writ or sum-
mons to be issued by the Clerk, and
to be served upon all resident-own
ers of tracts of land or realty, who
are not petitioners within the pro-
posed drainage district, as shown by
the tax books of Obion and Lake |
Tennessee, or by affidavits |
duly filed, and upon the parties in
actual occupancy of any part of said |
district, and upon any resi-
dent lien-holders or encumbrancers
Of any real estate within said pro-
posed district, as shown by the rec
Ords of Lake County and Obion |
County, Tennessee, and notifying |
them, and each of them of the
tendency of said petition, and the
prayer thereof, but said summons or