The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-03-15
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.


MosieT, ct al.
In the County Court of Obion Coun
ty, Tennessee, before the Honor
able George r. Kenney, County
! Judge for 0bion 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 Wilfredr
Clyde Puryear and wife, Fronie Pur-
year. w. G. 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 0bion County, Tennessee,
before the Honorable George r. Ken
ney, County Judge for 0bion Coun-
ty, Tennessee, to establish a drain
age district for the reclamation and
drainage of lands and realty in the
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 Tennes-
see, Chapter 1856, Senate Bill No.
229, often spoken of and generally
known as the drainage law, and Acts
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, 1t would unnecessarily encum-
Der 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 ap-
point disinterested and competent
engineer, and have placed in his
hands a copy of said petition, and |
hat said engineer be ordered by the |
Court to examine the lands described |
n the petition, and any other lands |
hat will be benefited by said i'm
)rovements, or proposed improve
nents, or necessary in carrying out
uch improvements, and survey and
ocate such drains, bitches and inn
)rovements as may be practicable
md best calculated to carry out the
purposes of the petition, and to ef-
ect and bring about the drainage
nd reclamation of the lands de-
cribed In this petition, or such lands
s in the Judgment of this Honorable
,ourt should be embraced and in
luded within the proposed drainage
istrict, and that will be of public
enefit or utility, or conducive to
he public health or welfare; that
aid engineer be ordered to make
eturn of and file his proceedings
nth the Clerk of the County Court
Obion County, Tennessee, said pro- ;
eedings and returns to set forth the [
.arting point or points, the route
r routes, the terminus or termini of '
he bitches, drains and other pro- {
osed improvements, of every nature, {
,gether with plat and profile, &
lowing the bitches, drains and 9TH I
: improvements, the course and
myth of same approximately
trough each tract of land, as far s
! may be practicable, and the total {
myth, and course, and elevation, as |
ear as may be practicable, of all t
kes, ponds and deep depressions in a
i'd district, or proposed district, d
e fall obtainable across said dis Il
let, as well as the boundaries of
e proposed district, and the de- f
ription of the realty and each tract p
land therein, as shown by the tax a
'oks of Obion and Lake counties, a
snnessee, respectively, and any a
her source of reliable information, a
gether with the probable costs of p
e proposed improvements, and also n
oh other facts and recommended u
)ns as said engineer may deem r.
st, or material; that upon the fill q
& of the returns of said engineer O
Q Court examine same, and If said n
an seems to be expedient and a.
Gets the approval of the Court that il
e Court order the Clerk to cause Il
tice to be given by writ or sum- 81
ons to be issued by the Clerk, and c
be served upon all resident-own- II
) of tracts of land or realty, who Il
e not petitioners within the pro- a.
sed drainage district, as shown by Il
e tax books of Obion and Lake a.
unties, Tennessee, or by affidavits g.
ly filed, and upon the parties in Il
tual occupancy of any part of said Il
opposed district, and upon any resi- al
Mt lien-holders or encumbrancers ~
any real estate within said pro- al
sed district, as shown by the rec HI
is of Lake County and Obion sa
unity, Tennessee, and notifying al
EN-, and each of them of the b.
ndency of said petition, and the in
aver thereof, but said summons or G.
IL need not give or set out in any @
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