LEGAL NOTICE: CAUSE NO. 112219 CITATION BY PUBLICATION

Publish two times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 and Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

CAUSE NO. 112219

CITATION BY PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF TEXAS: TO: The Unknown Heirs of The Estate of Esteban Gomez AKA Esteben Rodri uez Gomez, Deceased, and The Estate of Sterling C. Johnson, Deceased, Defendants (in rem only), address and whereabouts unknown, and any and all other persons, including adverse claimants, owning or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the following described property delinquent to Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit:

Greetings:

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: “You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of 42 days after you were served this citation, a default judgment may be taken against you. In addition to filing a written answer with the clerk, you may be required to make initial disclosures to the other parties of this suit. These disclosures generally must be made no later than 30 days after you file your answer with the clerk. Find out more at texaslawhelp.org.”

YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the 40TH Judicial District court of Ellis County, Texas, at the Courthouse thereof, at 109 S. Jackson, St., Waxahachie, TX, by filing a written answer at or before ten o’clock A.M. on the first Monday next after the expiration of forty-two (42) days from the date of the issuance of this citation, and you are hereby required then and there to appear and file written answer to the Plaintiff’s Original Petition, filed in said court on the 20th day of September, 2023 under cause number 112219, on the docket of said Court, and styled as follows:

FNA VI, LLC, Plaintiff(s) vs. ESTEBAN GOMEZ, ET AL, Defendant(s)

The real property subject to this suit is described as follows:

Legal Description:

TRACT ONE: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, LYING AND BEING SITUATED THE CITY OF ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BEING LOT NO. 16 AND THE WEST ONE-HALF OF LOT LOT NO. 15, BLOCK 87, AS SHOWN BY THE MAP OF SAID CITY OF ENNIS, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS IN SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED DATED MARCH 27, 2018 AND RECORDED MAY 3, 2018 AS mSTRUMENT NO. 1812672, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, FROM MARIA DE JESUS GOMEZ TO ESTEBAN GOMEZ.

TRACT TWO: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND OUT OF THE D. ROSE SURVEY AND BEING LOT NO. 14 AND THEE. HALF OF LOT NO. 15 IN BLOCK 87, IN THE CITY OF ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, AS PER MAP OF SAID CITY OF RECORD VOLUME M, PAGE 517, ELLIS COUNTY DEED RECORDS, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED DATED MARCH 27, 2018 AND RECORDED MAY 3, 2018 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 1812672, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, FROM MARIA DE JESUS GOMEZ TO ESTEBAN GOMEZ.

TRACT THREE: ALL THAT CERTAN LOT, TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND BENG LOTS NOS. ELEVEN (11), TWELVE (12), THIRTEEN (13), IN BLOCK NO. EIGHTY-SEVEN (87) IN THE CITY OF ENNIS, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY METES AND BOUNDS IN SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED DATED MARCH 27, 2018 AND RECORDED MAY 3, 2018 AS BISTRUMENT NO. 1812672, OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORDS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, FROM MARIA DE JESUS GOMEZ TO ESTEBAN GOMEZ.

Street Address: 101 S Kaufman St., Ennis, TX 75119; and

Tax Account: 158233.

Which said property is delinquent to Plaintiff for taxes in the following amounts: $ 20,739.03 (principal balance only), exclusive of interest, penalties, and costs, and there is included in this suit in addition to the taxes all said interest, penalties, and costs thereon, allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein.

You are hereby notified that suit has been brought by FNA VI, LLC, as Plaintiffs, against The Estate of Esteban AKA Esteben Rodriguez Gomez, Deceased (in rem only); MARIA DEJESUS GOMEZ (in rem only); The Estate of Sterling C. Johnson, Deceased (in rem only): Vanna Johnson (in rem only); Maria del Carmen Gomez (in rem only); Francisco Gomez (in rem only); Vicente Gomez (in rem only); Jazmin Gomez AKA Jasmine Gomez (in rem only); Victor Hugo Gomez (in rem only); Attorney General of Texas, Child Support Division (in rem only); and Ellis County, Ennis Independent School District, City of Ennis, and Ellis County Lateral Road (in rem only), as Defendants, by First Amended Petition filed on November 13, 2024, in a certain suit styled FNA VI, LLC, v. Esteban Gomez, et al, for collection of the taxes on said property and that said suit is now pending in the District Court of Ellis County, Texas, 40th Judicial District, and the file number of said suit is 112219, that the names of all taxing units which assess and collect taxes on the property hereinabove described, not made parties to this suit, are none.

Plaintiff and all other taxing units or transferees who may set up their tax claims herein seek recovery of delinquent ad valorem taxes on the property hereinabove described, and in addition to the taxes all interest, attorney’s fees, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon up to and including the day of judgment herein, and the establishment and foreclosure of liens, if any, securing the payment of same, as provided by law.

All parties to this suit, including plaintiff, defendants, and intervenors, shall take notice that claims not only for any taxes which were delinquent on said property at the time this suit was filed but all taxes becoming delinquent thereon at any time thereafter up to the day of judgment, including all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon, may, upon request therefore, be recovered herein without further citation or notice to any parties herein, and all said parties shall take notice of and plead and answer to all claims and pleadings now on file and which may hereafter be filed in said cause by all other parties herein, and all of those taxing units above named who may intervene herein and set up their respective tax claims against said property.

ATTORNEY for petitioner: DYLAN SCHULTZ, PO BOX 26128, AUSTIN, TX 78755-0128.

ISSUED and given under my hand and the seal of said Court, at Waxahachie, Texas, this 17th day of December, 2024.

MELANIE REED

Ellis County District Clerk

109 S. Jackson St.

Waxahachie, Texas 75165

By: /s/ Cheryl Wilson, Deputy