The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-04-03
NOTICE ON PETITION FOR
CONDEMNATION

NOTICE ON PETITION FOR
CONDEMNATION
No. SO
| Tract Nos. HSS-1, HSS-2, MH-59,
MH-59B and MH-60.)
In the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of
Washington, Southern Division
United States of America,
! Plaintiff,
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad Company, a cor
poration;
Henry A. Scandrett, Walter j.
Cummings and George I. Haight, as
Trustees in the matter of Chicago,
Milwaukee, st. Paul and Pacific
Railroad Company, Debtor;
Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, a corporation, and Merrel 2.
Galloway, as Trustees;
The National City Bank of New
York, National Banking Associa-
ton, and William w. Hoffman, as
Trustees;
Chemical Bank and Trust Com
pany, a corporation, and Howard
B. Smith, as Trustees;
Benton County, washington,
municipal corporation;
| Fred D. Kemp, I. M. Hartman and
Jay Perry, as County Commissioners
of Benton County, Washington;
] Hanford Water District, munich
pal corporation;
F.. E. Goodell and A. M. Rollinger,
as Commissioners of Hanford Wa
ter District;
Agathon Land Company, dis
solved corporation;
Elmer E. Todd, William M. Allen
and Charles M. Sanford, as Last
Trustees of the Agathon Land Com
pany dissolved corporation;
All other persons, firms or cor
porations, unknown, having or
claiming to have any right, title,
estate, lien or interest in or to the
land described below, or any por-
ton thereof,
| Defendants.
United States of America
Eastern District of Washington
Southern Division
| IS.
The President Of the United States
of America to the above-named de-
PENDANTS, and each of them:
Notice Is hereby given that the
above named plaintiff, United States
of America, Has filed an amended Pc
| tition in the above entitled court, the
objects and purposes of which petit
ton are to condemn and appropriate
all the property hereinafter des-
cribed to the uses and purposes of
the United States and to acquire in
the name of, and for, the United
States title and ownership of the
property hereinai ter described, the
same to be the fet: simple title (sub-
ject to a certain easement and
right of way az to Tracts HSS-1
and HSS-2 for the construction, op-
Grafton and maintenance of an cleo
trio power SubSoation and uses re-
lated to the distribution of electric
energy by the Bonneville Power
Administration: and as to- Tracts
MH-59, MH-59B and MH-60 the
certain easement hereinafter des-
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ton and maintenance of one or
more electric power transmission
lines by the Bonneville Power Adj
ministration; together with the ac-
QUESTION of such rights, titles and
uses as may in the Judgment of the
officials of the United States be
necessary or appurtenant to the
uses hereinafter set forth.
And the said petitioner by the
allegations of its petition herein
filed and through this proceeding
prays the Court that it do find and
decree that the contemplated use
for which the land hereinafter des-
cribed is sought to be appropriated
is a public use and that the public
interest requires the acquisition of
said land, and that the condemna-
ton and appropriation of the prop
erty herein described is necessary
for said public use and the petition
er herein has petitioned the Court
that jury be empaneled to fix and
determine a just and proper award
and compensation for the property
herein described, or in case a jury
be waived, then that the compensa-
ton to be made as aforesaid be as
certained and determined by the
court or a judge thereof; and that
the court determine to whom such
compensation should be paid.
The petitioner further prays
herein that compensation having
been awarded for the taking of the
property herein described, the said
property be decreed to be the prop
erty of the United States of Am
erica.
This notice has been given and
proceeding instituted by and with
the authority of the Attorney Cen
eral of the United States, and by
and with the authority of the Unit
ed States Attorney for the Eastern
District of Washington.
The property and real estate to be
condemned and appropriated herein
consists of the following, to-wit:
Tracts HSS-1 and HSS-2
Lot l of Block 8, Lots Is and Il
of Block 9, and Lot 8 of Block 10 of
Hanford, according to the recorded
plat thereof, and that part of
Thirteenth Street lying between the
northeasterly line of Tract A of
Hanford, according to the recorded
plat thereof, and the Columbia
River, and that part of Durham
Street lying southeasterly of a line
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