Fuller v. Wason
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was an action- on' the case, for waste. The cause was tried on the general issue at February term, 1834, when it appeared in evidence that Dolly Hardy was the widow of Asa Hardy, deceased,’and that the premises described in the declaration' had been assigned to her as her dower in the estate of the said Asa, the reversion being in'the plaintiff.
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This was an action- on' the case, for waste. The cause was tried on the general issue at February term, 1834, when it appeared in evidence that Dolly Hardy was the widow of Asa Hardy, deceased,’and that the premises described in the declaration' had been assigned to her as her dower in the estate of the said Asa, the reversion being in'the plaintiff. There was’a dwelling.on the premises, and the said' Dolly was under the guardianship of the defendant. . In March, 1832, the defendant set up at auction the fight to occupy and improve the said house and land for one year from the 1st April,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court,
Richardson, O. J.
The question to be settled in this case is, whether a tenant in dower has a right to sell wood growing upon the land, to be used any where except upon the land.
The statute enacts that no woman shall commit any strip or waste upon any lands whereof she shall be endowed, but she shall maintain such lands in good and sufficient repair during her estate therein, and shall so leave the same at the expiration of her estate therein; and shall be liable to respond in damages to the owner of the reversion for any strip or waste by her done or suffered thereupon.
A tenant…
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