Jennings' Executors v. Davis

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court—held,

for this case, by Judges Ewing and Marshall only.

William Davis, by his last will, made in 1816, directed his executors to sell all his estate, except the part left to his wife during her life, and to divide the proceeds equally among his children, except James, to whom he gave nothing, and Rebecca, to whom he gave one hundred dollars more, and Duncan, his son-in-law, fifty dollars less than the rest. And directed his executors, after his wife’s death, to sell the part left to her, and divide the proceeds equally among his children, except…