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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA Civil Action No. CC-18-2022-C-63 Hon. Lora Dyer AEP WEST VIRGINIA TRANSMISSION COMPANY, INC., a West Virginia corporation, Petitioner, vs. HAROLD R. HUTCHISON, RUTH ANN HUTCHISON, FRONTIER WEST VIRGINIA, INC., DURST OIL & GAS, INC., ASHLAND OIL, INC., UNKNOWN PERSONS OWNERS and ROSS H. MELLINGER, SHERIFF OF JACKSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, Respondents. LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLICATION AND NOTICE TO APPEAR ON JANUARY 19, 2023, AT 1:30 P .M. TO: RESPONDENTS, HAROLD R. HUTCHISON, RUTH ANN HUTCHISON, FRONTIER WEST VIRGINIA, INC., DURST OIL & GAS, INC., ASHLAND OIL, INC., UNKNOWN PERSONS OWNERS, AND ROSS H. MELLINGER, SHERIFF OF JACKSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA Notice is hereby given to Harold R. Hutchison, Ruth Ann Hutchison, Frontier West Virginia, Inc., Durst Oil & Gas, Inc., Ashland Oil, Inc., Unknown Persons wners, and Ross H. Mellinger, Sheriff of Jackson County, West Virginia (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “the aforementioned respondents”), that a Petition for Condemnation ight of Entry has been filed in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, West Virginia, and is known as Civil Action No. CC-18-2022-C-63, and styled AEP West Virginia Transmission Company, Inc. vs. Harold R. Hutchison, et al. Said Petition for Condemnation ight of Entry under the West Virginia laws of eminent domain seeks property for the construction of electrical transmission, distribution, and communication lines and appurtenant equipment and fixtures, and condemnation and right of entry on behalf of AEP West Virginia Transmission Company, Inc. situate, lying, and being on the Waters of Parchment Creek, Ripley District, Jackson County, West Virginia, identified as Tax Map 23, Parcel 25, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Jackson County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 382, at page 225, and being more specifically bounded and described as follows: 608.069 AC & INT OGM PARCHMENT HUTCHISON WELLS PILLAR ENERGY-DURST PARCEL A: BEGINNING at a stone, hickory pointers and running; thence S. 68 W. 84 poles and 12 feet to a red oak; thence S. 14 W. 25 poles to a red stump; thence S. 8-ONE-HALF W. 18 poles and 13 feet to a white oak; thence S. 71 W. 6 poles to a white oak; thence S. 33 W. 26-ONE-HALF poles to a stone, red oak pointers; thence N. 73 W. 116 poles 6 feet to a sugar; thence N. 35 E. 17 poles 9 feet to a cedar; thence N. 36 W. 72 poles 12 feet to a fence post; thence N. 3-ONE-HALF E. 60 poles 10 feet to a rock; thence N. 26 E. 106 poles to a stone, B.O. Pointers; thence S. 83-ONE-HALF E. 78 poles and 11 feet to two chesnut oaks; thence S. 1/2 W. 23 poles to a rock; thence S. 25 W. 12 poles to a white oak; thence S. 42 E. 53 poles to a black oak; thence S. 12 E. 12 poles to a stake; thence S. 17-ONE-HALF E. 8 poles and 9 feet to a stone; thence S. 65 E. 27 poles and 5 feet to a white oak; thence S. 72 E. 59 poles to a white oak; thences S. 16 E. 38 poles to the place of beginning, Containing 239 acres and 43 square rods. PARCEL B-TRACT ONE: BEGINNING at a stone, a corner to Davis and Stout land, running with and along lands of Stout to a hickory tree, corner to Fred Shinn and W. M. Davis land; thence with Fred Shinn’s land to a sycamore tree, a corner; thence to a fallen white oak, tree a corner; thence to lands of Rebecca and W. P. Davis, a corner; thence with the lands of Rebecca and W.P. Davis to lands of Charley Carney at the public road; thence with and along the said public road to the lands of Hutchison; thence with Hutchison’s line to a small branch to a stone and pointers, a corner; thence with Hutchison’s land to a pine knot, a corner; thence with Hutchison’s land to pine knot and corner between Stout, Hutchison and Davis land; thence with lands of Henry Stout to a dogwood tree, a corner; thence with the Henry Stout land to a pine stump, a corner; thence with Henry Stout’s land to a rock, a corner; thence with Henry Stout land to a black oak tree, a corner; thence with Henry Stout’s land to a dogwood tree a corner to Stout, Smith and Davis land; thence to the beginning, estimated to contain 200 acres, be the same more or less. TRACT TWO: BEGINNING at a large beech tree in a branch; thence S. 21 1/4 E. 30 poles to a stone; thence N. 99 1/2 E. 22 poles to a stone in orchard; thence S. 64 3/4 E. 9 poles and 11 links to a plow point in the public road; thence N. 35 1/2 E. 38 poles to a plow point in center of road; thence S. 80 E. 7 poles to a stone; thence S. 23 1/2 E. 50 poles to a maple stump on Run bank; thence S. 53 W. 100 poles to a stone and pointers; thence N. 43 W. 20 poles to a W.O. Stump and pointers; thence S. 73 1/2 W. 23 3/4 poles to a road; thence N. 7 W. 34 poles to a stone pile at forks of run; thence N. 66 W. 30 poles to a stone; thence N. 6 W. 6 1/2 poles; thence N. 36 E. 24 poles to a large poplar; thence N. 62 1/2 E. 33 1/2 poles to an ash; thence N. 30 E. 3 poles and 11 links to a hickory; thence N. 71 E. 11 poles and 8 links to the place of beginning, Containing 54 acres, be the same more or less. TRACT THREE: BEING and consisting of a tract of 11 1/2 acres, more or less, lying adjoining the above described land and being a part of the land hereby conveyed, making in the aggregate 231 acres. PARCEL C: TRACT ONE: BEGINNING at a beech in a drain; thence N. 7 E. 47 1/2 poles to a stone at the garden; thence S. 87 E. 7 poles and 9 links to a stone by the gate at public road; thence N. 9 1/4 E. 76 poles to a line of Henry Stout, making a stone corner in said Stout line; thence N. 77 W. 6-ONE-HALF poles to a black oak; thence N. 19 E. 10 poles to a white oak; thence S. 86-31/2 W. 93 poles to two Beeches; thence S. 29 W. 45 poles to a black oak; thence S. 7 E. 10 poles to white oak and pointers; thence S. 16 E. 124 poles to a stone in Bee Run; thence N. 30 E. 24 poles to a poplar; thence N. 62-ONE-HALF E. 33-ONE-HALF poles to an ash; thence N. 30 E. 3 poles and 11 links to a Hickory; thence N. 71 E. 11 poles and 8 links to the place of beginning, containing 86 acres and 87 poles, more or less. TRACT TWO: BEGINNING at a big beech in a drain corner of Stewart lines; thence N. 7 E. 47-ONE-HALF poles to a stone at the garden; thence S. 87 E. 7 poles and 9 links to a stone by the gate at the public road; thence with the public to stone on East side of road; thence S. 78-ONE-QUARTER E. 12 poles and 4 links to a stone; thence S. 10 W. 14 poles and 15 links to a small walnut; thence S. 58-ONE-QUARTER E. 30 poles and 23 links to a stone near two cedars on top of a bluff; thence S. 38-31/2 E. 14 poles and 16 links to the Allen Davis line, thence with the Allen Davis line to plow point in public road; thence with the public road in a southerly direction to a plow point in the middle of road corner of Stewart line; thence with Stewarts line to the place of beginning, containing 28-ONE-HALF acres, more or less. TRACT THREE: FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING at a stone in the middle of public road; thence S. 82 E. 2 poles 23 links to a stone on north side of the road; thence S. 23-31/2 E. 3-ONE-HALF rods to the middle of the road; thence S. 9-ONE-HALF W. 3 rods and 11 links to a stone on the upper side of the road; thence S. 78-ONE-QUARTER E. 12 poles and 4 links to a stone; thence S. 10 W. 14 poles and 15 links to a small walnut; thence S. 58-ONE-QUARTER E. 30 poles and 23 links to a stone near two cedars on the top of a bluff; thence S. 38-ONE-QUARTER E. 14 poles and 16 links to an old line; thence N. 15 E. 96 rods and 17 links; thence S. 77 E. 67 poles; thence S. 10-ONE-HALF W. 59 poles and 4 links to the place of beginning, containing 30 acres and 11 rods, more or less. SECOND TRACT; BEGINNING at a stone in the middle of public road in line of Elta Hutchison and F. B. Hutchison heirs, and A. L. Hutchison and others; thence S. 9-ONE-QUARTER W. 17 poles and 2 feet to a stone at the corner of the yard of A. L. Hutchison and others; thence S. 87 E. 1 poles to the middle of the public road; thence with the middle of said road in a northern and western direction 21 poles to the place of beginning, containing 50 square rods, more or less. The aforementioned respondents are hereby notified a copy of said Petition for Condemnation ight of Entry may be obtained from the Jackson County Circuit Clerk’s office at 100 Court Street, Ripley, West Virginia, 25271, for the purposes of appearing and defending. The Petition for Condemnation ight of Entry may also be obtained from the attorneys for AEP West Virginia Transmission Company, Inc., Stephen F. Gandee, Post Office Box 128, 140 West Main Street, Suite 300, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 26302-0128, or Douglas C. McElwee, 700 Virginia Street East, Suite 400, Charleston, West Virginia, 25301. The aforementioned respondents are further notified that a hearing on the said Petition for Condemnation ight of Entry will occur on January 19, 2023, at 1:30 p.m., in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, West Virginia, located at 100 Court Street, Ripley, West Virginia, 25271, before the Honorable Lora Dyer. You may appear for hearing as stated above, and are notified that any failure to appear may result in the waiver of any defenses or claims, if any, you may have. Entered by the Clerk of said Court on this 16th day of November, 2022. BRUCE DEWEES JACKSON COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERK By: Deputy Clerk Submitted by: Stephen F. Gandee Douglas C. McElwee (W. Va. State Bar I.D.: 2449) Stephen F. Gandee (W. Va. State Bar I.D.: 5204) Post Office Box 1791 Charleston, West Virgini