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LEGAL NOTICE

LERNER, SAMPSON, & ROTHFUSS

Attorneys At Law

120 East Fourth Street, 8th Floor

P.O. Box 5480

Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-5480

Telephone: 1-513-241-3100

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 03CV 1752

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum

NOTICE IN SUIT FOR

FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE

THE BANK OF NEW YORK, ACTING SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE FOR EQUICREDIT CORPORATION TRUST 2001-2

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

WILLIAM E. PEARCE, ET AL.,

DEFENDANTS.

Mary N. Pearce, whose last known address is 421 Hood Drive, Canfield, Ohio 44406, and the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, spouses and assigns and the unknown guardians of minor and/or incompetent heirs of Mary N. Pearce, all of whose residences are unknown and cannot by reasonable diligence be ascertained, will take notice that on the 27th day of May, 2003, The Bank of New York, acting solely in its capacity as Trustee for Equicredit Corporation Trust 2001-2 filed its Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Mahoning County Ohio in Case No. 03CV 1752 on the docket of the Court, and the object and demand for relief of which pleading is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff's mortgage recorded upon the following described real estate, to wit:

PROPERTY LOCATED AT: 421 Hood Drive, Canfield, Ohio 44406 and being more particularly described in plaintiff's mortgage recorded in Mortgage Book 3386, Page 325, of this County Recorder's Office.

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 28-027-0-047.00

All of the above named defendants are required to answer within twenty-eight (28) days after last publication, which shall be published once a week for six consecutive weeks, said answer day being the 11th day of September, 2003, or they might be denied a hearing in this case.

LERNER, SAMPSON & ROTHFUSS,

Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Jul 10,17,24,31; Aug 7,14, 2003  03-01035