Westerfield

William Westerfield died intestate in Nevada County, October 16, 1888, and on the 29th of that month letters of administration upon his estate ■were issued out of the superior court of that county to the public administrator. February 27, 1889, the plaintiffs herein filed in said superior court their petition in the matter of said estate for a determination by the court of the interests of all parties in the estate, and to whom distribution thereof should be made, and that upon final hearing thereof they be declared to be the sole heirs of said estate, and that the estate be distributed to them. Thereupon, upon the same day, the court made an order that notice be given requiring all persons claiming to be interested in said estate to appear before said court on the twentieth day of May, 1889, and exhibit their respective claims of heirship or other interest in said estate, and directing that said notice be personally served “ on all persons herein named, and all other persons known as claiming any interest in said estate, at least thirty days before the time fixed for said appearance”; and further directing that “service of said notice be made on all said persons claiming interest…