IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WOOD COUNTY,
WEST VIRGINIA
THE URBAN RENEWAL
AUTHORITY
OF THE CITY OF
PARKERSBURG,
a public corporation,
Petitioner,
vs. ROSS FAMILY
INVESTMENTS, LLC;
CITY OF PARKERSBURG;
SHERIFF OF WOOD
COUNTY;
TO ANY UNKNOWN
PERSON WHO HAS AN
INTEREST IN THIS
PROPERTY
Defendants.
UPON PROCEEDINGS TO
CONDEMN LAND FOR
PUBLIC USE
CASE NO. 20-C-175
A F F I D A V I T F O R
P U B L I C A T I O N
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 proposed to be taken in 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 1708 Pike Street, and more particularly described as follows:
BEING all of Lot No. Four (4) as shown on a plat of P. C. Miller’s Redivision of E. E. Lake’s Subdivision to the City of Parkersburg, West Virginia, which said plat is of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Wood County, West Virginia in Deed Book No. 441, at page 113-A, to which reference is made.
Being the same property conveyed to Ross Family Investments, LLC, by deed dated the 22nd of August, 2012 from Richard W. Griffin II of record in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office in Deed Book No. 116, at page 792.
THE URBAN RENEWAL
AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PARKERSBURG,
public corporation, Plaintiff
By Counsel
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
COUNTY OF WOOD, TO-WIT:
Comes now, Robert K. Tebay III, Assistant City Attorney for the City of Parkersburg, Plaintiff in the above entitled action and after first being duly sworn deposes and says as follows:
That the address(es) of residency(ies) for Defendant(s) Robert and Lee Ann Romine and to any unknown Person(s) are unknown and that Defendant(s) cannot be located, or are non-residents of the State of West Virginia. Further affeant saith not.
Robert K TebayIII
Assistant City Attorney
City of Parkersburg
Taken, subscribed and sworn to before the undersigned authority this 6th day of August, 2020.
My commission expires:
September 11, 2024.
l/s: Jennifer Schoenhut
Notary Public
Aug 31, Sept 7