TCA § 29-16-104 — Petition

The person seeking to appropriate such land shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which the land lies, setting forth, in substance: The parcel of land or rights therein or incident thereto a portion of which is wanted, and the extent wanted; The name of the owner of such land or rights, or, if unknown, stating the fact; The object for which the land, etc., is wanted; and A prayer that a suitable portion of land or rights may be decreed to the petitioner, and set apart by metes and bounds, or other proper mode. Code 1858, § 1326; Shan., § 1845; mod. Code 1932, § 3110; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-1404.