CASE NAME: LWI Metalworks, LLC v. Michael Steeves, et al.

SUMMONS AND ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: MICHAEL STEEVES

You are summoned and required to serve upon Timothy W. Sargent, plaintiff’s

attorney, whose address is P.O. Box 696, Morrisville, Vermont 05661, an answer to plaintiff’s complaint in the above-entitled action within forty-two (42) days after the date of the first publication of the summons, which is September 10, 2025.

If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Your answer must also be filed with the Court. Unless the relief demanded in the complaint is for damages covered by a liability insurance policy under which the insurer has the right or obligation to conduct the defense, or unless otherwise prescribed in Rule 13(a) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure, your answer must state as a counterclaim any related claim which you may have against plaintiff, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action.

Plaintiff’s action is a lawsuit for collection based upon non-payment of metal design work commissioned on Michael Steeves’ behalf with LWI Metalworks, LLC. A copy of the complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Vermont Superior Court, Lamoille Unit Civil Division, P.O. Box 570, Hyde Park, VT 05655, Case No. 25-SC-0047.

It appears from the affidavits duly filed in the above-entitled action that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the methods prescribed in Rule 4(d) through (f), inclusive, of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. It is ordered that service of the above process shall be made upon defendant Michael Steeves by publication pursuant to Rule 4(g) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure.

FILED: 8/28/2025 4:38 PM

Vermont Superior Court

Lamoille Unit

25-SC-00047

This order shall be published once week for two successive weeks, on September 10, 2025 and September 17, 2025, in Seven Days, newspaper of general circulation in all of Vermont.

Service shall also be made by regular mail to the last known address of Michael Steeves at P.O. Box 201, Troy, VT 05868.

Dated at Hyde Park, Vermont, this 29th day of August .2025.

/s/ Benjamin D. Batiles

Hon. Benjamin D. Batiles, Presiding Judge