Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-24

ITNDER AND BY vIRTOE OF A
sale entered in the District Court
of the Seventeenth Judicial District
ofthe State of California. in and for the
county OF Los Angeles, on the Gath day of
November, A. d. 1879. and a writ OF
execution for the enforcement OF judg-
ment, requiring sale OF property under
foreclosure OF mortgage, issued out of the
aforesaid District Court, annexed to said
decree and dated the 24th day OF No
vember, A. ID. 1879, in the above en-
titled action, and in favor of Henry Co.
we'll, plaintiff, and against Alvin X. Me-
serve, VIM. Riley and Robert Cathcart,
defendants, certified copy OF which
said decree of foreclosure, duly at
tested under the seal of said court on the
29th day of ofNovember. A. d. 1879, and deliv-
cred to me, together with the writ annex
ed thereto. on the last mentioned
day, whereby 1 am commanded to sell
at public auction, to the highest and
best bidder, for cash In u. S. gold coin.
the following and in said decree de-
scribed real estate, to-wit:
All the lots, pieces or parcels OF land,
situate in the state OF California. county
of Los Angeles, Township OF san Jose,
constituting portions of the San Jose
Rancho, being about three-fourths of a
mile northerly from the town of Pomo-
ma, said lots being hereinafter described, +,
according to survey of e. Hadley, on a
map known as "Map of the Meserye apd
Loop Tract" lied in the Recorders office
of the county of Los Angeles as follows,
to wit:
The undivided three-fourths of all the
following lots or parcels OF land, to wit:
or lot No l, containing 60.0S acres; of lot
no 4, containing 55.25 acres; of lot No. 5,
containing 81 81 acres; of lot No IL, con-
tanning 97 acres; of lots Nos 12, l3, IL, Is,
%, 2i, 20, and east half OF lot No 81, divid
Ell by a line through the center of said
lot "a running north and south, each of
said last mentioned lots containing 40
acres; oflot No 20, containing 1887 acres |;
OF lot No 25, containing 27.l6 acres; of lot
No 80, containing 1857 acres; of block G,
containing 1882 acres; of block b, in l25
acres thereof remaining unsold therein /;
of 30 acres on the easterly side of the
Ranch House or Homestead Tract, rum
ming across said tract in parallel lines
from south to north.
Also, the whole of all the following lots,
10 wit: Lot No Icon tain ing 45 "a acres; lot
No 10, containing 1854 acres; Lot No 10,
containing q. So acres.
Also, the whole of that part OF the Syc-
amora tract, beginning at the northwest
corner OF that portion thereof decided
January y, 1875, by SydneySorby to the de-
fendant Alvin k.MeseTve; running thcnt @
west, variation II degrees IS minutes
east. 2S.49 chains to point: thence south
90 SO chains; thence south 81 degrees east
l7.20 chains to q point; thence north 2254
degrees east 1915 chains, to the point OF
beginning.
Also, the whole OF that portion of the
Ranch House or Homestead Tract. de-
scribed as beginning at a large pepper
tree in the southeast corner of the pres
ent garden; thence east Y.S5 chains to q
point; thence north % 81 chains TO a
point; thence west 0.35 chains to a poin / !;
and thence south 22.37 chains 10 the
point of beginning.
Also, the whole of fifty acres lying on
the west side of said Ranch House or
Homestead Tract, running across said
tract in parallel lines from north to
south; together with all and singular he
tenements, Entertainments and appurte-
nances thereunto belonging or in any
wise appertaining, and the reversion and
reversions, remainder and remalnders,
rents, issues and profits thereof.
Public notice is hereby given that on