LEGAL NOTICE
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WOOD COUNTY,
WEST VIRGINIA
THE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY
OF THE CITY OF PARKERSBURG,
a public corporation,
Plantiffs,
UPON PROCEEDINGS TO CONDEMN LAND
FOR PUBLIC USE
CASE NO. 2021-C- 276
Vs.
ERIC WHITLOCK; KIRSTIE ELLIOTT;
AARON REDMON; FIRST MUTUAL BANK;
BELPRE SAVINGS BANK; CITY OF
PARKERSBURG; SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY;
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA;TO ANY UNKNOWN
PERSON WHO HAS AN INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY
Defendants.
The object of this action is for this Court to determine the Petitioner’s right to condemn and appropriate for said public purpose the land indicated and described herein; that the Court will permit said land sought to be condemned to be at once entered upon, possessed, appropriated and used, for the purposes stated in the Petition; that Commissioners be appointed to ascertain a just compensation to the owner or owners thereof, and other persons (lienors or otherwise) interested therein, for such land herein described and proposed to be taken, appropriated and used, for the public purposes and uses, aforesaid, together with damages, if any, to the residue of the respective tracts from which the said parcels sought to be acquired are respectively taken, beyond all benefits, if any, which may be derived in respect to such residue, for the purposes to which the parcels are to be taken, appropriated and used; that such other and further proceedings may be had in the premises as shall conform to the law, and that upon the payment of the compensation and damages thus or to be ascertained, a right of entry be issued; that land, may be vested in the Urban Renewal Authority of the City of Parkersburg, a public corporation, and that Petitioner may be granted such, other, further, general and special relief in the premises as shall seem meet and proper to this Honorable Court.
The parcel of land subject to this proceeding is more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Situate in the City and District of Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, commonly known as 1304 14th Street, and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point, a corner common to Lot No. 36, in the south line of East Fourteenth Street which point is 56 feet from the southeastern corner of Ramsey Street and Fourteenth Street; thence with the line common to Lots Nos. 36and 37 and parallel with Ramsey Street in a southerly direction 98.63 feet to Fourteenth Street; thence with the southerly line of Fourteenth Street in a westerly direction 28 feet to the place of beginning, being Lot No. 37 in Jamison’s Addition to the City of Parkersburg as shown in Plat Book No. 1, at Page 40, in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia.
Being the same lot conveyed to Eric Whitlock by deed dated the 2nd day of July, 2004, from John D. Johnson and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book No. 1069, at page 781.
To the Defendant(s) Eric Whitlock and Unknown Person(s):
It appearing by Affidavit filed in this action that the last known address(es) for Defendant Eric Whitlock and for any unknown person(s) who may have an interest are unknown and that no other address(es) of residency(ies) are known, it is hereby ordered that Defendant(s) Eric Whitlock and any unknown person(s) serve upon Robert K. Tebay III, Assistant City Attorney, City of Parkersburg, whose address is Post Office Box 1627, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26102, an Answer, including any related counterclaim or defense you may have to the Petition filed in this action on or before the 12th day of November, 2021. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgment, upon proper hearing, may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition.
A copy of the Complaint can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office.
ENTERED by the Clerk of said Court this 1st day of October, 2021.
Celeste Ridgway
Clerk of Courts
By: A. Daugherty, Deputy
Oct 19, 26