Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-20

Dlstrict-Henry Cowell, Plaintiff. VS..
Alvin x. Meserve, William Riley and
Robert Cathcart, Defendants.
r Under AND BY VIRTOE OF a
" decree of foreclosure and order OF
sale entered in the District Court
of the Seventeenth judicial District
of the State of California, in and for the
county Of Los Angeles, on the 24th day OF
November, A. ID. 1879. and 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 Oath day OF No
yember, A. ID. 1873, in the above en-
titled action, and in favor of Henry CO.
well. plaintiff, and against Alvin II. 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 November, A. d. 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 dc.
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 beiag hereinafter described,
according to u survey of T.. Hadley, on a
| map known as "Map of the Meserve and
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:
| or lot No l, containing COOS acres; of lot
N 4, containing 55.25 acres; of lot No. s,
containing 5367 acres; of lot No IL, con-
| tanning 9.77 acres; of lots Nos IL, IS, IL, IS,
%, 2l, 20, and east half of lot No "a, divid-
| Ell by line through the center of said
lot "a running north and south, each of
said last mentioned lots containing 40
acres; of lot No 20. containing 1887 acres;
of lot No 25, containing 27.l5 acres; of lot
No 80, containing 1857 acres; OF block G,
| containing 1882 acres; OF block Il. in lbs
acres thereof remaining unsold therein;
OF 30 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 40. .5i acres; lot
No 10, containing 45.54 acres; Lot No 10,
| containing 22.5S acres.
| Also, the whole of that part OF the Syc.
amore tract, beginning at the northwest
corner of that portion thereof decided
January 2, 1875, by SydneySorby to the de-
| fendant Alvin R.Meserve; running theme e
west, variation II degrees 45 minutes
east, 28.s9 chains to point; thence south
20.36 chains; thence south 81 degrees east
| l7.W 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 q large pepper
| tree in the southeast corner of the pres
ent garden; thence east 9.S5 chains to a
| point; thence north % 81 chains TO a
point; thence west 9.35 chains to poin L (;
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 RENT malnders,
rents, issues and profits thereof.
| Public notice is hereby given that on