NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MUSCOGEE COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA, CIVIL ACTION FILE NO. SU2025CV001307
CHARITABLE REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS, LLC,
Petitioner,
v.
ALL PERSONS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, WHO CLAIM, OR MIGHT CLAIM ADVERSELY TO PETITIONER'S TITLE TO ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN COLUMBUS, MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND BEING DESIGNATED AS PART OF CITY LOT THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE (351) AND BEING SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP OR PLAT ENTITLED "BOUNDARY SURVEY, SURVEY OF PART OF CITY LOT 351, COLUMBUS, MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GEORGIA", DATED FEBRUARY 14, 1986, PREPARED BY FRENCH & ASSOCIATES, SURVEYORS, AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 96, PAGE 40, IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MUSCOGEE COCUNTY, GEORGIA, SAID PLAT BEING INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE THERETO FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY CONVEYED HEREBY.SAID PARCEL IS CONVEYED SUBJECT TO THAT CERTAIN EASEMENT TO GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, DATED JULY 14, 1980, AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 1957, FOLIO 144, AFORESAID CLERK'S OFFICE, FOR THE SETTING OF POLES AND MOUNTING AND MAINTAINING OF TWO 14,500 LUMEN HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM LIGHTS AND ALSO TO THAT CERTAIN EXTERIOR FACED COVENANT FOR THE DWELLING KNOWN AS 1402 2ND AVENUE FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS COMMENDING FEBRUARY 14, 1986, AS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN WARRANTY DEED FROM HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION, INC., TO JERRY D. DELAY, AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2566, PAGE 1, AFORESAID CLERK'S OFFICE.; COMPASSIONATE SERVICE CHARITIES, INC.; DAN VAN GASKEN, AS TRUSTEE OF THE 14TH – E REAL ESTATE HOLDING TRUST; DAN VAN GASKEN; AND LARRY W. BUSSEY,
Respondents.
To: Shareholders, directors, officers, representatives and all interested parties of Compassionate Service Charities, Inc., a Utah corporation authorized to do business in the State of Georgia, their agents, heirs, personal representatives and successors; shareholders, directors, officers, representatives and all interested parties of the Dan Van Gasken, as Trustee of the 14th–E Real Estate Holding Trust; Dan M. Van Gasken, as Trustee of the 14th-E Real Estate Holding Trust, his agents, heirs, personal representatives and successors; Larry W. Bussey, his agents, heirs, personal representatives and successors; shareholders, directors, officers, representatives and all interested parties of The Housing Authority of Columbus, Georgia, their agents, heirs and personal representatives and successors; and any and all persons known or unknown claiming any right, title, power, interest, ownership, equity, claim or demand in and to the land described above, and all occupants, tenants, lessees, licensees and all holders, owners and users of way across, over and under said land.
You are hereby notified that the above styled civil action seeking to establish title to the above described property against all the world was filed on the 17th day of May, 2025, in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, and that by reason of order of service by publication entered by said court on the 11th day of December, 2025, you are hereby demanded to be and appear at said court no later than (30) thirty days after the last publication of this notice and within that time to answer said petition and file any and all necessary and appropriate pleadings with the court and a copy of same should be mailed to Petitioner's attorney, Thomas H. Camp, P.O. Box 2349, Newnan, Georgia 30264. Your failure to do so will result in judgment by default being entered against you and the loss of all right, title and interest that you may have in or to said real property. Also take notice that a hearing on this matter will be held by Special Master Steven W. Ray on the 24th day of June, 2026, beginning at 9:30 a.m., in the hearing room, 10th Floor (East Side), The Government Tower, 100 10th Street, Columbus, Georgia. The purpose of the hearing will be to take evidence from all parties present on the factual issues of the Petition, and to hear and take under advisement any questions of law that the parties may have as to such issues. After the conclusion of the hearing, the Special Master will submit to the Court a report of his findings regarding the validity, nature and extent of Petitioner's title and all other interests in the land referenced in the Petition. All parties are hereby notified to attend and present such evidence and/or questions of law as to the parties, and/or the parties' counsel, may deem appropriate and necessary.
So ordered by the Hon. John T. Martin, Judge, Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, on December 9, 2025.
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