Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of the United States for the First Circuit in the District of Rhode Island. The case was this:
On the 7th of July, 1817, Peleg Gardner made his last will, in which, among other things, he devised as follows: "I give and devise to my beloved son Ezekiel W. Gardner two third parts of all that my ferry farm, so called," &c. "to him the said Ezekiel...
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