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IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE CITY OF
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
The City of Fitzgerald,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Josephine Walton, Albert Lester, Paige Latrece Lester and Corey Corinthian Izell Carter.
Defendant(s).
File No. N2016-10-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
TO: Josephine Walton, Albert Lester, Paige Latrece Lester, and Corey Corinthian Izell Carter, defendants, and all other persons owning or in possession of or claiming any interest in or right, title, claim or demand against the hereinafter described Property, and all lienors, tenants and lessees thereof, and all other persons having an interest in or a claim to the Property:
Notice is hereby given that a complaint in rem was filed by the City of
Fitzgerald (the “Cityâ€) against Josephine Walton, Albert Lester, Paige
Latrece Lester, and Corey Corinthian Izell Carter, Defendants, on the 31st day of October, 2016, in the Municipal Court of the City of Fitzgerald, Georgia. Said complaint is available for inspection and copying in the office of Gary Ussery, Clerk of the Municipal Court for the City of Fitzgerald, 255 Appomattox Road, Fitzgerald, GA 31750, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
In said suit the City seeks relief (consisting of the abatement of certain alleged nuisances) against certain real property that is more particularly described as follows:
All of Lot No. 16 and all of the East one-half of Lot No. 15 all in Block 2
in Williams Second Addition to the City of Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia, as shown by the recorded plat of said Addition. Said property fronts 60 feet on Ocmulgee Street and 140 feet on what is referred to on said plat as Taylor Street. The subject property is the same property which was conveyed to Emma Edmondson Lester by deed recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Ben Hill County, Georgia in Deed Book 174,
page 665 on June 1, 1983.
The abatement of nuisances may include the repair, alteration or demolition of dwellings, buildings, and other structures, and the imposition of a lien against the said property for the cost of repair, alteration, and/or demolition, including all court costs, appraisal fees, administrative costs incurred by the City in connection with this suit and all other costs necessarily associated with the abatement action, including restoration to grade of the real property after demolition.
The address, if any, of said property is Ocmulgee St., Fitzgerald, GA 31750.
The official tax map reference for said property is 14 4 2 6 16.
You are hereby summoned and required to appear at a hearing to be held by this Court with respect to the foregoing complaint at the Ben Hill County Probate Court, 111 S. Sheridan St., Fitzgerald, GA 31750, on the 8th day of December, 2016, at 10 o'clock, a.m., to show cause, if any there may be, why the relief prayed for in the above mentioned complaint should not be granted. You are further summoned and required to file with the Clerk of said Court and serve upon the Plaintiff's attorney, Kyle C. Cook, Jay, Sherrell, Smith, Braddy & Cook, P.C., P.O. Box 308, 101 East Pine Street, Fitzgerald, GA 31750, an answer to the foregoing complaint.
Such answer must be filed prior at or prior to the commencement of said hearing. If you fail to do so, judgment may be taken against said property and you for the relief demanded in the complaint.
This 21st day of November, 2016.
Gary Ussery, Clerk of Municipal Court
(11/30,12/7)
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