Owen v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““It is not a question, then, whether the dowager cut the timber from this fifteen acres as a necessary means of support, but it is, did she materially injure the dower estate thereby? If so, she would be liable to an action for waste; but if not, although the clearing was not necessary for her support, and although she may have done it for the purpose of profit, she is not liable. If the cleared land on the dower estate was old and worn, and if the proportion of wood land was such as that a prudent farmer would have considered it best to reduce a portion of it to cultivation, whereby to relieve the old land from excess of culture, and thus enhance the value of the whole dower estate, such clearing would not be waste, provided ‘ sufficient timber for tbe permanent use of tbe dower estate’ were left. 7 John. 227 ; 4 Kent, 76.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Thompson