Stockton Building & Loan Ass'n v. Chalmers

—This is an action to foreclose a mortgage executed by one Robert Chalmers in his lifetime. His executor and executrix and a junior mortgagee were made defendants. Joseph and Martin Alhoff are inter venors, and the court having rendered judgment against them, and directed a sale of the mortgaged premises, they have appealed. The intervention is based upon the following facts: —

In 1855 one M. Alhoff went into the occupation of a small tract of unsurveyed government land, and thence resided thereon with his family until his death. He extended Iris possessions so as to embrace some twenty-two or…