Brooks v. Smith

Caruthers, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court:

Action of covenant by tbe purchaser of a lessor against tbe assignee of the lessees. — Demurrer to tbe declaration sustained by tbe Circuit Judge, and appeal in error.

Tbe case'made in tbe declaration is, that Parrott God-win being tbe owner of a tract of land, in Grainger county, entered into and executed certain articles of agreement under seal with Ryons and Clovinger, of which proferí is made, by which “be leased to them, for tbe term of five years from tbe 1st of January 1854, a lot of ground— part and parcel of said tract of land.” By…