LEGAL NOTICE

ULRICH SASSANO DEIGHTON

DELANEY & HIGGINS CO LPA

24755 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 200

Cleveland, OH 44122

In the Court of Common Pleas, 203 West Main Street, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio.

Case No. 2025 CV 00356.

Independent Bank, Plaintiff vs. Kaleigh Shaffer, Administrator of the Estate of Michael Claypool, et al., Defendants.

Defendant(s), John Doe, Unknown Occupant/Tenant, Name Unknown, whose last known address is 2504 Hazelnut Road, Ravenna, OH 44266 And The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, their Spouses and Creditors, Legatees, and the Fiducuary of the Estate and Spouse and Creditors of Michael Claypool, Deceased, whose Identities and Address(es) are Unknown, will take notice that on August 21, 2025, The Huntington National Bank, filed its Answer & Crossclaim in Case Number 2025CV00356, Portage County, Ohio, alleging that the defendant(s), John Doe, Unknown Occupant/Tenant, Name Unknown And The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, their Spouses and Creditors, Legatees, and the Fiducuary of the Estate and Spouse and Creditors of Michael Claypool, Deceased, have or claim to have an interest in the real estate described below:

Premises commonly known as: 2504 Hazelnut Rd, Ravenna, OH 44266

Parcel No.: 04-010-10-00-072-010.

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 Defendant(s) 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 marshaling 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.

Said above named Defendant(s) will further take notice that they are required to answer the Complaint on or before December 1, 2025.

INDEPENDENT BANK,

Plaintiff

By: BRADLEY P. TOMAN, (#0042720) and MAUREEN C. ZINK DELANEY, (#0083507), Attorneys for Defendant, Huntington National Bank.

Oct 20, 27; Nov 3, 2025

25-00243