Potter v. Gardner

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. u to him the saiu'Ezekiel W. Gardner, and to his heirs and assigns for ever, he, my said son Ezekiel W. Gardner, paying all my just debts out of said estate. And I do hereby order, and it is my will, that my son Ezekiel W. Gardner…