Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-03

District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial
District-Henry Cowell, Plaintiff. vs.
Alvin X. Meserve, William Riley and
Robert Cathcart, Defendants.
1INDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A
u decree of foreclosure and order OF
sale entered in the District Court
of the Seventeenth judicial District
of tie State of California. In and for the
county Of Los Angeles, on the oath day of
November, A. ID. 1879. and a writ OF
execution for the enforcement of judg-
ment, requiring sale OF property under
foreclosure OF mortgage, issued out ftbe
aforesaid District Court, annexed TO said
decree and dated the oath day OF No
vember, A. ID. 1879. in the above en-
titled action, and in favor of Henry CO.
well. plaintiff. and against Alvin II. Me.
serve, Win. Riley and Robert Cathcart,
defendants, a certified copy of which
said decree of foreclosure, duly at
tested under the seal of said court on the
29th day ofNovember. ID. 1879. and deliv-
cred to me, together with the writ annex
ed thereto. on the last mentioned
day, whereby l 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 St1e of California, county
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 f. Hadley, on a
map known as "Map ofthe Meserve apd
Loop Tract" filed 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:
Of lot No l, containing 60.0S acres; of lot
No 4, containing 55.25 acres; of lot No. 5,
containing 53.67 acres; of lot No IL, con-
tainfng 97 acres; of lots Nos u, l3, IL, Is,
%, "a, 20, and east half of lot No 81, diYid-
ed by line through the center of said
lot "a running north and south, each a
said last mentioned lots containing 40
acres; oflot No 20. containing 1887 acres:
of lot No 25, containing 27l5 acres; of lot
No 80, containing 1857 acres; of block q,
containing 1852 acres; OF block b. In l25
acres thereof remaining unsold therein;
OF 80 acres on the easterly. side of the
Ranch House or Homestead Tract, run
ming across said tract in parallel lines
from south to north.
Also, the whole of all the folloWing lots,
to wit: Lot No 9,con tanning 45.54Acres; lot
No 10, containing 4554 aces; Lot No 15,
Also, the whole of that part OF the Syc-
amore tract, beginning at the northwest
corner OF that portion thereof decided
January y, 1875, by SydneySorby to the de-
fendant Alvin X. Meserve; running thence
west, variation II degrees IS minutes
east. 28.49 chains to point: thence south
20.36 chains; thence south 81 degrees east
1920 chains to 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 ASj chains to "a
point; thence north % 81 chains TO a
point; thence west 9.3j chains to a point;
and thence south 22.T chains TO the
point of beginning.
Also, the whole of flfty 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 the
tenements, hereditaments and appurte-
nances thereunto belonging or In any
wise 9ppertaining, and the reversion and
reverslons, remainder and remalndet,s,
rents, issues and profits thereof.
Public notice is hereby gwen that on