The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-02-04


individually and as Director
-4ouser Creek Drainage District
81. al. VS.. s. E. Agnew and others
defendants.-In the County Cour
of Obion County, Tennessee, be
fore the Honorable ]. B. Waddell
County Judge for Obion County
Tenn.
To H. o. Head, Sr., Mrs. Orleans
Eader, and her husband, George d
Eader, Hayden Head, ]. G. Polk,
R. Herring Mrs. Annie Swayne
Hugh Swayne, Helen Swayne, Mar
tina Wall Herring, Mrs Maggie Bell
Pauline Kline, Bessie Kline, Eliza.
beth Herring; Walter Howell, trus
tee for Jake Caldwell, and the Fed,
eral land Bank, of Louisville, KY.
Walter Howell, trustee for H. T. Ed
wards; Walter Howell, trustee fol
G. w. Phebus, Jr.; Walter Howell
trustee for McAdoo Harris and Mrs
Willie Harris; The Federal Land
Bank, a nonresident corporation, OF
Louisville, KY; The Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Company, a
nonresident corporation, with its
situs at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and
The Fidelity Mutual Insurance Com
pany, a nonresident corporation:
You and each of you are hereby
notified to appear before the Hon
orable j. B. Waddell, County Judge
for Obion County, Tennessee, holding
the County Court for Obion County,
at the Courthouse at Union City,
Tennessee, on Tuesday, the First
day of March. 1921, to make defense
to the petition of G. A. Houser and
w. e. Warren, both individually and
as Directors of Houser Creek Drain
age District, ct al, filed on the 21st
day of January, 1921, in the County
Court of Obion County, Tenn, before
the Hon. j. B. Waddell. County
Judge, against S. E. Agnew and 9TH
ers, defendants, for the purpose of
having new apportionment of the
assessments made and levied and
other bonds issued and sold in the
cause of Charlie Everett ct al. VS..
Miriam Edwards ct al, in the County
Court of Obion County, Tenn, be-
fore the Hon. j. B. Waddell, County
Judge, wherein Houser Greek Drain
age, District was organized, and be-
cause the costs of the work and i'm
provements of said Drainage District
exec the estimate originally
made in said cause, and because of
the necessity of new assessment
and levy of taxes and new issue of
Drainage bonds in said cause; and
which day, to-wit, the First day of
March, 1921, the Court has set for
the hearing of said petition, and the
matters and things in same involved;
you are hereby notified of the pen
dency of such petition, SO filed on
January 21st, 1921, and to which
you are referred for it's contents; yeu
are also notified that, along with S.
e. Agnew, and others (who are
named in said petition as defendants,
but as resident defendants, and are
duly ordered to be made defendants
by the issuance and service Of drain
age summons etc. you are named as
defendants, but as nonresident de-
PENDANTS, and are duly ordered to be
made defendants by nonresident
publication, agreeable to the drain
age laws of Tennessee, to-wit, Chap
ter 1876 of the 1909 Acts of Tonnes
see, and amendments thereto; you
are also notified that the prayer of
said petition so filed on January 21st,
1921, briefly is as follows, viz: That,
if necessary, the Court appoint a
competent and disinterested engineer
to make due report as to the neces-
sity of a new apportionment and levy
of assessments, and CT issuance of
other bonds; that the Court by
proper decree fix day for the hear
ing of said petition, and the matters
and things in same involved; that,
agreeable to said Drainage Act and
amendments thereto, the Court order
process to issue and be served upon
the resident owners and encum-
brancers, and that publication be
made as to the nonresident owners
and encumbrancers, of said Houser
Creek Drainage District, organized
out of lands in the 4th and 18th Civil
Districts of Obion County, Tenn, and
notifying them of the tendency of
this petition and the prayer thereof,
but not in detail, either as to the pc
tition or it's prayer; said summons
and nonresident publication to noti-
fly respectively the defendants as
therein named of the day the Court
has set for the hearing of this petit
ton; that at the hearing the Court
hear such evidence, both on the part
of petitioners and defendants, as may
be competent, touching the matters
in question; and petitioners also in
said petition pray that any and all
things expedient, proper and neces-
sary, ETC., be ordered and done under
suitable orders and DEGREES of the
Court, to the end that the purposes
of such petition may be accom-
plished, and that a new apportion-
ment of assessments in said original
cause may be made and levied, and
that other bonds may be issued and
sold, etc.. and petitioners also pray
for such other, further and general
relief, as they may be entitled to, or
as may be necessary, under the facts
and at the hearing of said petitions:
You are notified that, in said
cause of Charlie Everett, ct al.
VS.. Miriam Edwards ct al, in the
County Court as afore-recited (the
original petition in said matter and