Goodloe v. Rodes

Green Olay, who died- 'about the 1st of November, 1828, having, some'years antecedently to his death, verbally given to one of his daughters and her husband, William Rodes, the temporary possession and use of a tract of land containing about 400 acres, afterwards, by his will, since legally established, devised the tract to Cassius M. Clay, in trust for his said daughter and her infant children.

In December, 1828, after the probate of the will, the said Rodes, who was an acting executor thereof, finding that one Eslill held a covenant on the testator, dated in 1811, for a part of the land thus…