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LEGAL NOTICE

F. PETER COSTELLO

Attorney At Law

REIMER, LORBER & ARNOVITZ CO., L.P.A.

2450 Edison Blvd

P.O. Box 968

Twinsburg, Ohio 44087

Telephone: 1-330-425-4201

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 10CV 358

CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

LAURA M. ST. CLAIR, ET AL.,

DEFENDANTS.

Empire Funding Corporation, whose last place of business is c/o CT Corporation System, Statutory Agent, 1200 Pine Island Drive, Plantation, FL 33324, and 9737 Greathills Trail, Austin, TX 78759, and 9600 Greathills Trail, Austin Texas 78759 but whose present place of business is unknown, will take notice that on the 1st day of February, 2010, Chase Home Finance LLC, successor by merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation, filed its Complaint in Case No. 10CV 358 in the Court of Common Pleas, Mahoning County, Ohio, alleging that the Defendant, Empire Funding Corporation have or claim to have an interest in the real estate described below:

Permanent Parcel Numbers: 48-061-0-015.000 and 48-061-0-016.000; Property Address: 6665 Fairview Road, Austintown, Ohio 44515. The legal description may be obtained from the Mahoning Count Auditor at Mahoning County Court House, 120 Market Street, First Floor, Youngstown, Ohio 44503. (330) 740-2010.

The Petitioner further alleges that by reason of default of the Defendant in the payment of a 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 Petitioner prays that the Defendant 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 Petitioner’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 30th DAY OF JULY, 2010.

Chase Home Finance LLC, successor by merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation

REIMER, LORBER & ARNOVITZ CO., LPA

BY:  F. PETER COSTELLO,

Attorney for Plaintiff-Petitioner.

Jun 18,25; Jul 2, 2010  10-00927