Case Name: Parkins vs. Coxe
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1805-01
Citations: 2 Hayw. 339
Docket Number: 
Parties: Parkins vs. Coxe.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 339–339

Head Matter:
Parkins vs. Coxe.

Opinion:
KpAYLOR, Judge.
It is not waste to clear tillable laud:
- for the necessary support of his family, though the timber be destroyed in clearing; nor is it waste to cut down timber, for making or repairing fences, necessary buddings, or, plantation utensils : but it is, waste; to cut down timber for sale ; so it is waste to collect together the lightwood,and extract tar from it — = for that is a permanet injury, as it takes several years tq produce as much lightwood. If the tenant is to have liberty of burning lightwood for tar, or falling the timber for sale, it should be conceded to him in the lease.