IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
RANDOLPH COUNTY COMMISSION, on
behalf of its designee the Randolph County
Unsafe Buildings and Lands Enforcement
Agency,
Plaintiff,
v. Case No., 21-C-20
Judge: David H. Wilmoth
THE ESTATE OF BLAINE LAWSON,
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BLAINE
LAWSON, and HOWARD PINGLEY,
Defendants,
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of the above-entitled action is to establish the ownership interest in a tract or parcel of land situate in Leadsville District, Randolph County, West Virginia, more particularly described in a Deed dated September 8, 1951, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Randolph County Commission in Deed Book 188, at Page 115, owned by Blaine Lawson, now deceased, and for the Court to enter an Order granting the Plaintiff a lien against the subject property in the amount of the contractor’s costs in remediating unsafe or unsanitary conditions on the subject property, and to order and decree the sale of the subject property to satisfy the lien, as well as the other relief requested in the Complaint filed with the Court.
And it appearing by an affidavit filed in this action that counsel for the Plaintiff has used due diligence, but has been unable to determine if there may be persons, other than those named in the Complaint as Plaintiff and Defendants interested in the subject matter of the action, whose names are unknown to the Plaintiff and who are made Defendants by the general description of the Unknown Heirs of Blaine Lawson.
It is ORDERED that Unknown Heirs of Blaine Lawson do serve upon Robert C. Chenoweth and Peter G. Zurbuch, the Plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is P.O. Box 1819, Elkins, West Virginia 26241, an answer or other defense to the Petition filed in this action on or before September 27, 2021, otherwise judgment by default will be taken against you at any time thereafter. A copy of said Complaint can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at his office.
Enter this 24th day of August, 2021.
Philip D. Riggleman
Circuit Clerkj
Hailee Primavero, Deputy