KINGWOOD — A mobile home the Town of Albright went to court to have moved has been sold and will be moved, according to the owner’s mother’s fiancé.
Thursday, it was still in the contested spot.
Kent Rollins submitted the latest filing in the court case, which was entered into the file Wednesday. Rollins’ fiancée, Susan Sapp, is the owner of the land where the trailer sits and the mother of the trailer’s owner, Amy Sapp.
As he has in past filings, Rollins maintains that reports of the lawsuit in the newspaper have made it difficult to find a company to move the trailer.
“Arranged mover is asking double due to current and prospective publicity,” Rollins wrote in the filing.
The filing was on plain white letterhead and not the letterhead of his employer, Region VI Planning and Development Council, as past filings were.
When The Dominion Post contacted Region VI earlier to ask if the agency was acting on Sapp’s behalf, Director Sheena Hunt said, “This is not Region VI’s position on this,” and said she told Rollins not to use the Region’s letterhead.
On Nov. 14, Preston Circuit Judge Steve Shaffer gave Amy Sapp 10 days to remove the trailer. If she did not, the town has authority to do so.
Albright filed a civil suit in Preston Circuit Court in July, saying the mobile home was placed on Susan Sapp’s lot in violation of town and county flood control ordinances. The town first contacted Sapp in April, when the trailer was moved onto the property.
As he had in the Dec. 4 filing, Rollins wrote in the Dec. 18 filing that the mobile home was sold to Teter’s Campground for use as a rafter’s dormitory. “The cost of moving is included in the transaction,” he wrote.
Rollins adds that Teter doesn’t have sufficient funds to pay the movers because of holiday expenses, so, “I have agreed to loan them the amount for reimbursement after Cheat River Days (May).”
Rollins is a project specialist with Region VI, with expertise in flood plains.
He concludes his latest court filing by saying, “While my agency is not contracted involving this particular matter, I continue to provide Good Samaritan assistance for the town’s interests, just as I have in the past.
“For their last water project, I volunteered and located the water valves for Bolyard after the FEMA paving covered them over. I also provided the crate of ‘as built’ water line mapping to them.”
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