Heard v. Sill

By the Court.

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

The complainants in this case filed their hill against the defendant, calling on him to account to them for the hire of two negroes, bequeathed to Nancy Sill by her father, Joseph Heard, under the following clause in his will:

“ I give my son, F. FI. Heard, in trust for Nancy Sill, two negroes, Bartley and Nat, with a' discretionary, that if the said Henry Sill relinquishes all claim againt my estate, for lot of land No. 30, 2d Monroe, now Pike county, which lot was given to him, not sold, and the said Nancy should have living children, but both…