
    Upon the Petition of William Lufkin and Others, Guardians.
    Upon a petition of a guardian, for authority to sell the real estate of his ward, tor the payment of his debts, accompanied with a certificate from the probate office, that the facts alleged are true, the Court will order notice to the pre sumptive heirs of the «Sird, before granting the petition.
    The petition set forth that the minors, of whom the petitioners were the guardians, were possessed of a certain real estate, part of which it was necessary to sell for the payment of debts due from the minors, and that by a partial sale the residue would [ * 399 ] be greatly injured, and thereupon prayed authority * to sell the whole of the estate. The facts alleged were also certified to be true by the judge of probate.
    
      Andrews, for the petitioners.
   The Court ordered notice of the petition to be served on the presumptive heirs of the minors, and afterwards, on their assenting, the prayer of the petition was granted . 
      
       [Sed vide Rice & Al. vs. Parkman, 16 Mass. 332.—See, however, the Revised Statutes.—Ed.]
     