26-00800P

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF MINERAL INTERESTS
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.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the Summary Final Judgment of Partition of Mineral Interests entered on April 8, 2026, in the cause pending in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, in and for Pasco County, Florida, Civil Action Number 2025CA002927CAAXES, the undersigned Clerk will sell the subsurface oil, gas, hydrocarbon and other mineral rights, including royalties (collectively, the “Mineral Interests”) on the Property situated in Pasco County, Florida, described as:
SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF,
EXHIBIT A
Legal Description
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.
at public sale, to the highest and best bidder for cash on THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2026 at 11:00 a.m., in the following location: in person, at a live sale conducted by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Pasco County, at the South entrance of the Pasco County Courthouse, 38053 Live Oak Avenue, Dade City, Florida 33523-3894.
NOTICE: ANY PERSON, OTHER THAN THE OWNER(S) OF THE MINERAL RIGHTS ON THE PROPERTY AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS, CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN OR TO ANY SURPLUS FUNDS RESULTING FROM THE SALE CONTEMPLATED HEREIN, IF ANY, MUST FILE A CLAIM WITH THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT WITHIN SIXTY (60) DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE SALE.
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.
Leonard H. Johnson, Esquire /
FNB 319961
Sheada Madani, Esquire / FBN 10567
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
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