U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia March 15, 1834 (Chapman v. Fenwick)

Cranch, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

(Thruston, J., absent.)

Mrs. Frances Edelin, the then owner of the petitioners, on the 2d of November, 1825, made her will, in which she says, “After my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeathe as follows : I give and bequeathe to my nephew John B. Edelin, the store-house and lot,” &c., (describing it).