Publish four times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, and Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025.

 

THE STATE OF TEXAS


TO: PLAINTIFF, HUGH BRINSON PIPELINE, LLC, BY AND THROUGH ITS ATTORNEY OF RECORD, THOMAS A ZABEL, 1135 HEIGHTS BOULEVARD, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77008

DEFENDANTS, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS OF TIMOTHY THURSTON BARGE AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN 60 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN THE DAVID SMITH SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO.988, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE WARRANTY DEED WITH VENDOR’S LIEN, DATED JUNE 19,2003, RECORDED IN VOLUME 1941, PAGE 1730, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, ARE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE IDENTITIES ARE UNKNOWN, AND PURSUANT TO TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE 17.004, MAY BE SERVED WITH NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BY AND THROUGH AN ATTORNEY AD LITEM APPOINTED BY THE COURT.; IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS

Defendant, Greeting:

You are hereby notified that at 12:00 0’clock p.m., on the 23rd day of September, 2025 at Waxahachie Civic Center, 2000 Civic Center Lane, Waxahachie, Texas 75165 the undersigned Special Commissioner’s, having been appointed by the Honorable Judge of said court to assess values and damages occasioned by the condemnation of the easements described in the Plaintiff’s Original Statement and Petition for Condemnation, or as amended, a true and correct copy Of which is attached hetero as Exhibit *’A: and having heretofore duly selected such time and place for said hearing as required by law, will proceed to hear Said party and said written statement and to act thereon in the manner directed by law.

Said Plaintiff’ s Original Statement and Petition for Condemnation was filed in said court, on the 13th day of May 2025 in this cause, numbered 25-C-3405 on the docket of said Court, and styled:

HUGH BRINSON PIPELINE, LLC

vs

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS OF TIMOTHY THURSTON BARGE AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN 60 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN THE DAVID SMITH SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO.988, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE WARRANTY DEED WITH VENDOR ‘S LIEN, DATED JUNE 19,2003, RECORDED IN VOLUME 1947, PAGE 1730, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, ARE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE IDENTITIES ARE UNKNOWN, AND PURSUANT TO TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE 17.004, MAY BE SERVED WITH NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BY AND THROUGH AN ATTORNEY AD LITEM APPOINTED BY THE COURT, IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS

The names of the parties to the cause are as follows:

HUGH BRINSON PIPELINE, PLAINTIFF(S)

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS OF TIMOTHY THURSTON BARGE AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSONS OR ENTITIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN 60 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN THE DAVID SMITH SURVEY, ABSTRACT NO.988, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE WARRANTY DEED WITH VENDOR’S LIEN, DATED JUNE 19,2003, RECORDED IN VOLUME 1947, PAGE 1730, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, ARE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE IDENTITIES ARE UNKNOWN, AND PURSUANT TO TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE 17M)4, MAY BE SERVED WITH NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION IN A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BY AND THROUGH AN ATTORNEY AD LITEM APPOINTED BY THE COURT.; IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

DEFENDANT(S)

A brief statement of the nature of this suit is as follows, to wit: Plaintiff’s HUGH BRINSON PIPELINE„ LLC filed Original Statement and Petition for Condemnation. Notice of Hearing is attached.

If this citation is not served within ninety days after the date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.

The officer executing this process shall promptly execute the same according to law and make due return as the law directs.

ISSUED AND GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT, AT MY OFFICE IN WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS ON THIS 11th DAY OF August 2025.

Krystal Valdez

Clerk of the County

Court at Law #1

Ellis County, Texas

By: Madison Johnson

Deputy Clerk