Cox v. Fenwick

*538OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyxe.

This wag¡ an action of covenant. The declaration in substance states that the plaintiff on the 31st of October 1803, by deed hearing the same date, demised to Uriah Edwards, for the term of fifteen years then to come, a tract of 400 acres of land, with mills and other improvements thereon; for which Edwards covenanted to pay annually a rent of 100L : and that the said Edwards, on the 15th of October 1806, assigned to the defendant the residue of the term then to come in the said demised premises, except a .small piece at the cast end, adjoining Peter G.…