In re Bastian

In the month of November, 1931, by a petition dated the twelfth of that month, this proceeding was instituted against the defendants Wright and thirty-five other persons, as owners and tenants, respectively, of property located at Nine Mile Point, so called, in the town of Webster, to acquire said property for public purposes. On the seventeenth of that month the petitioners caused to be filed in the Monroe county clerk’s office a notice of the pendency of said proceeding, indexing the same against the two owners and the thirty-five tenants. The tenants, apparently, made no appearance, and…