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LEGAL NOTICE

GEORGE J. ANNOS

Attorney At Law

CARLISLE, McNELLIE, RINI, KRAMER & ULRICH

24755 Chagrin Boulevard, Suite 200

Cleveland, Ohio 44122

Telephone: 1-216-360-7200

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 04CV 2477

FIRSTMERIT MORTGAGE CORPORATION

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

DEWAYNE LOCKHART, ET AL

DEFENDANTS.

Defendants, Dewayne Lockhart and Jane Doe, Real Name Unknown, The Unknown Spouse, if any, of Dewayne Lockhart, whose last known address is 3925 Kings Place, Ellenwood, Georgia 30294 and 1319 Oak Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44506, will take notice that on the 20th day of July, 2004, FirstMerit Mortgage Corporation, filed their Complaint in Case Number 04CV 2477, in the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County, Ohio, alleging that the defendants, Dewayne Lockhart and Jane Doe, Real Name Unknown, The Unknown Spouse, if any, of Dewayne Lockhart, have or claim to have an interest in the real estate described below:

Situated in the City of Youngstown, County of Mahoning and State of Ohio: and known as being Youngstown City Lot Number Sixteen Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-five (16285) according to the latest enumeration of lots in said City as shown in W.H. Palmer Company's Plat recorded in Volume 12, Page 132, Mahoning County Records. Said Lot No. 16285 has a frontage of Forty (40) feet on the Southwest line of Oak Street and extends back of even width a depth of One Hundred Twenty (120) feet, as appears by said Plat, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways.

Known for street numbering purposes as 1319 Oak Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44506

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 53-026-0-570.00

The Plaintiff further alleges that by reason of default in the payment of the promissory note, according to its tenor, the conditions of a concurrent mortgage deed given to secure the payment of said note and conveying the premises described, have been broken and the same has become absolute.

The Plaintiff demands that the defendants named above be required to answer and set up their interest in said real estate or be forever barred from asserting the same, for foreclosure of said mortgage, the marshalling of any liens, and the sale of said real estate, and the proceeds of said sale applied to the payment of Plaintiff‘s claim in the proper order of its priority and for such other and further relief as is just and equitable.

The defendants named above are required to answer on or before the 4th day of January, 2005.

CARLISLE, McNELLIE, RINI, KRAMER & ULRICH

BY:  GEORGE J. ANNOS

Attorney for Plaintiff.

Nov 2,9,16,23,30; Dec 7, 2004  04-01716