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Suit in Chancery to Liquidate Mortgage on 14,000 Acres in Ocean [Special to the Evening Star.] TRENTON, May 1.-Suit to compel Leon Stern, of New York city, and other landholders in Ocean county, to discharge a bond and mortgage held by the Holland Trust Company of New York, has been instituted in the Court of Chancery. Samuel Bryant, receiver for the Holland Trust Company, who brings the suit, alleges Stern became indebted to the trust company in 1911 for $33,000, and in order to secure the payment of that sum executed a bend for $66,000. Stern agreed, he says, that in the event the indebtedness was paid the obligation should be held void. Stern executed an indenture of mortgage covering about 11,000 acres of land in Ocean county. The lands in question were sold to Stern for $43,000, of which $10,000 was cash and the balance secured by Stern's bond. Receiver Bryant avers all the principal money mentioned and secured by Stern's bond and mortgage with interest from March 26, 1912, remains due and unpa d, although he has asked the defendants to discharge their obligations. The sale of the mortgaged premises in order to secure the Holland Trust Company its claim is asked of the Court of Chancery by the trust company. The defendants mentioned besides Stern are: Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Isaacs, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Staier, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gill, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Steindler and George B, Astley. Edward A. and William T. Day, of Newark, represent the complainant.