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: CC-54-2023-C-293
AARON INC;
PATRICIA WEIGLE;
CITY OF PARKERSBURG;
SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY;
WEST VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF STATE;
TO ANY UNKNOWN PERSON WHO HAS AN
INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY
DEFENDANT(s)
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 1331 Market Street, and more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point at the southwest line on the west side of Market Street, 170 feet south of the southern line of S.S. Cook, the southeast corner of a lot conveyed to W.I. Boreman by E.L. Gale and wife, by deed dated July 17, 1878, and record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia, in Deed Book No. 39, at page 435, and a corner to a lot conveyed on the same day by Gale and his wife to Lucy M. Jones; thence westerly and parallel to the said south line of S.S. Cook toward the Ohio River, 165 feet to an alley provided for and laid off by the Commissioners in the Partition of the land of the late Tillinghast Cook, thence northerly along said alley and parallel with said line of Market Street 50 feet; thence easterly parallel with said Cook’s line 165 feet to the said line of Market Street, thence southerly along said line of Market Street 50 feet to the Place of Beginning, and
BEING the same lot conveyed to Aaron Inc. by deed dated the 1st day of January, 1974 from Howard C. Work and Jean H. Brady, Trustees under the Eddy Trust, and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book No. 628, at page 399.
To the Defendant(s) AARON INC, PATRICIA WEIGLE, CITY OF PARKERSBURG, SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF STATE, UNKNOWN PERSON(S):
It appearing by Affidavit filed in this action that the last known address(es) for Defendant AARON INC, PATRICIA WEIGLE, CITY OF PARKERSBURG, SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF STATE 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) AARON INC, PATRICIA WEIGLE, CITY OF PARKERSBURG, SHERIFF OF WOOD COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF STATE 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 4th day of December, 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 1st day of November, 2023.
Clerk of Court
Nov 28, Dec 5