Lake City Reporter
February 14, 2026
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA
Case No.: 2026-41-CA
Division: Civil
EMANUEL CURRY and
GERALDINE CURRY,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
ALEXANDER SANDERS, CATHERINE SANDERS, ESTATE OF ALEXANDER SANDERS, ESTATE OF CATHERINE SANDERS, AND ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN PARTY OR PARTIES CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE HEREIN NAMED INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANT(S) WHO ARE KNOWN OR PRESUMED TO BE DEAD, BUT EITHER DEAD OR ALIVE, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, ISSUE, CHILDREN, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, GRANTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE DEFENDANTS TO HAVING ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY HEREIN DESCRIBED.
Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO DEFENDANTS ALEXANDER SANDERS and CATHERINE SANDERS, both known or presumed dead, and UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ALEXANDER SANDERS, deceased, and CATHERINE SANDERS, deceased, including any unknown spouse(s) of Defendant(s), and if the aforesaid is deceased, any unknown heirs, devisees, issue, children, beneficiaries, devisees, assignees, lienors, grantees, creditors, trustees, and all other parties claiming by, through, under or against them, and all other parties having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in the property herein described.
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that you have been designated as defendant in a legal proceeding filed against you for Adverse Possession without Color of Title/Quiet Title, Unjust Enrichment, & Declaratory Judgment. The action involves real property in COLUMBIA County, Florida, more fully described as follows:
Two (2) Acres in NE 1/4, of SW 1/4 of NW 1/4, bounded east by land of Maggie Williams, west by lands of James Smith, Section 35, Township 3 South, Range 17 East. Except or Subject to any easement or right-of-way of record.
The action was instituted in the Columbia County, Florida, and is styled as above.
You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to the action on LLOYD E. PETERSON, JR., the Plaintiffs' attorney, whose address is 905 SW Baya Drive, Lake City, Florida 32025, on or before APRIL 6, 2026, 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 complaint.
DATED on February 10, 2026
JAMES M. SWISHER, JR., Clerk for the Third
Judicial Circuit Court of Columbia County, Florida
By: Breanna Arreguin Rodriguez
Deputy Clerk
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February 14, 21, 2026
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