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,
Petitioner,
UPON PROCEEDINGS
TO CONDEMN LAND FOR
PUBLIC USE
CASE NO.: 23-P-149
vs.
UNKNOWN HEIRS OR
DEVISEES OF
ERNEST ROLLYSON AND ETHEL ROLLYSON;
MARK ROLLYSON; JENNIFER KELLEY;
CONNIE HANSCOME; ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS OF
TIMOTHY ROLLYSON; MIKE ROLLYSON;
DONNIE ROLLYSON; ROBERT ROLLYSON;
KATHY ROLLYSON; MISSY ROLLYSON;
SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY; CITY OF
PARKERSBURG; 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 1316 Oak Street, and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the East side of Oak Street188.3 feet North of Thirteenth Street; thence with Oak Street northerly 28 feet; thence Easterly and parallel with Thirteenth Street, 125 feet to an alley; thence Southerly with said alley, 28 feet; thence Westerly and parallel with Thirteenth Street, 125 feet the place of beginning and being known as Lot No. Fourteen (14) as laid down on a plat of Fouse and Hughes Subdivision of the Rathbone Property of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia, in Plat Book No. 1, at page 43.
BEING the same property conveyed to Ernest S. Rollyson and Ethel Rollyson, jointly and to the survivor, by deed from Emma B. Rollyson dated the 12th day of April, 1972, and of record in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book No. 598, at page 102.
To the Defendant(s) Unknown Heirs of Ethel Rollyson and Unknown Person(s):
It appearing by Affidavit filed in this action that the last known address(es) for Defendant Unknown Heirs of Ethel Rollyson 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) Unknown Heirs of Ethel Rollyson 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 29th day of June, 2023. 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 said Petition can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her office.
ENTERED by the Clerk of said Court this 16th day of June, 2023.
/s/ Celeste Ridgeway
Clerk of Court
May 24, 31