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[[File:Hening&Munford1809V1FordvGardner.pdf ‎|link=Media:Hening&Munford1809V1FordvGardner.pdf ‎|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:Hening&Munford1809V1FordvGardner.pdf ‎|''Ford v. Gardner'']], in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21593279330003196 ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: with Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District''], by William Hening and William Munford 2nd ed. Flatbush: I. Riley, 1809.]]

[[Media:Hening&Munford1809V1FordvGardner.pdf ‎|''Ford v. Gardner'']], 11 Va. (1 Hen. & M.) 71 (1806),<ref>William Hening and William Munford, ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: with Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District'', 2nd ed. (Flatbush: I. Riley,
 1809), 1:71</ref> was a case involving the validity of a will.

==Background==
The family members of Mary Gardner brought a suit against Francis Ford. Ford claimed that Mary had written a will giving him her entire estate. The Gardner family provided several witnesses stating that the document Ford possessed was not properly executed. 
===The Court's Decision===
Chancellor Wythe affirmed the lower court’s decision in favor of the Gardner family. The Court of Appeals agreed.
==See also==
*[[Wythe's Judicial Career]]

==References==
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