25-02525P

NOTICE OF ACTION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA
CIVIL DIVISION
Case No.:
2025CA002927CAAXES
HANDCART & OVERPASS, LLC,
a Florida limited liability company
Plaintiff, v.
A.E. BURGIN; ROY H. LAIRD; VERABANK, N.A., AS
SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE U/W OF ANNIE LAIRD FBO THE ROY H. LAIRD MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL FOUNDATION; C.J. DAVIDSON; W.J. WEAVER; ALDEN COFFEY; JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., successor to THE FORT WORTH NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILLS OF ALDEN COFFEY AND MAUD COFFEY; DR. J.F. MCVEIGH; THE BISHOP
QUIN FOUNDATION, a Texas corporation; METHODIST
CHILDREN’S HOME, successor
to METHODIST HOME
FOUNDATION, a Texas
corporation; MEREKEN LAND AND PRODUCTION COMPANY, a Texas corporation, also known as
MEREKEN LAND & PRODUCTION COMPANY, a Texas corporation, formerly known as CARTER
FOUNDATION PRODUCTION COMPANY; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS AGENT FOR
SINGIN’ HILLS MINERALS,
LTD. UNDER AGREEMENT DATED 5/14/2008; and all
unknown persons, if alive and if dead, or not known to be dead or alive, their respective unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against the above Defendants,
Defendants.
TO: Defendants, A.E. BURGIN, if alive, and if dead, his unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against A.E. BURGIN; ROY H. LAIRD, if alive, and if dead, his unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against ROY H. LAIRD; C.J. DAVIDSON, if alive, and if dead, his/her unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against C.J. DAVIDSON; W.J. WEAVER, if alive, and if dead, his/her unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against W.J. WEAVER; ALDEN COFFEY, if alive, and if dead, his unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against ALDEN COFFEY; JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., successor to THE FORT WORTH NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE UNDER THE WILLS OF ALDEN COFFEY AND MAUD COFFEY; and DR. J.F. MCVEIGH, if alive, and if dead, his unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against DR. J.F. MCVEIGH (collectively, “Unknown Defendants”), and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, or not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under, or against the unknown persons, and others, and, and all other parties having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in the real property herein described.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Verified Complaint for Partition of Mineral Interests relating to certain real property located in Pasco County, Florida, to-wit: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF, has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to Plaintiff’s attorney, LEONARD H. JOHNSON, ESQUIRE, and SHEADA MADANI, ESQUIRE of the law firm of JOHNSON POPE BOKOR RUPPEL & BURNS LLP, whose address is 400 North Ashley Drive, Suite 3100, Tampa, Florida 33602, [email protected] or [email protected], telephone number (813) 225-2500, attorneys for the Plaintiff, HANDCART & OVERPASS, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, on or before DECEMBER 29TH, 2025, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on the Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Verified Complaint for Partition of Mineral Interestss.
EXHIBIT A
The Land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Pasco, State of Florida, and is described as follows:
Lot 2, Neukom Subdivision, an unrecorded subdivision, being more particularly described as follows:
For a point of reference commence at the Northeast corner of Section 31, Township 25 South, Range 21 East, Pasco County, Florida; thence South 00°10’15” West, along the East Boundary of the Northeast 1/4 of said Section 31, a distance of 669.38 feet to a point on the Southerly maintained right-of-way line of Fairview Heights Road; thence South 89°55’44” West, along said right-of-way line, a distance of 2624.89 feet to a point on the Easterly maintained right-of-way line of Handcart Road; thence South 00°11’37” West, along said right-of-way line, a distance of 320.59 feet for a Point of Beginning; thence continue South 00°11’37” West, along said right-of-way line a distance of 310.00 feet; thence South 89°55’59” East, a distance of 703.68 feet; thence North 00°11’35” East, a distance of 310.00 feet; thence North 89°55’59” West, a distance of 703.68 feet to the Point of Beginning. Subject to a perpetual right-of-way easement over and across the West 35.00 feet thereof.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Office of the Court Administrator, 7530 Little Road, Port Richey, FL 34654, (727) 847-8135, at least seven days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.
DATED THIS November 24, 2025
Nikki Alvarez-Sowles, Esquire,
Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Pasco County
Deputy Clerk: Haley Joyner
JOHNSON POPE BOKOR RUPPEL
& BURNS LLP
400 North Ashley Drive,
Suite 3100
Tampa, Florida 33602
Telephone: (813) 2250-2500
Primary: [email protected]
Secondary: [email protected]
Attorneys for Plaintiff
www.jpfirm.com
Nov. 28; Dec. 5, 12, 19, 2025 25-02525P

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