Case Name: Crocker v. Fox et ux.
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1791-09
Citations: 1 Root 323
Docket Number: 
Parties: Crocker v. Fox et ux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 323–323

Head Matter:
NEW LONDON COUNTY,
SEPTEMBER TERM, A. D. 1791.
Crocker v. Fox et ux.
Action of waste lies against tenant in dower.
ActxoN of waste, declaring, that the plaintiff was seized of tbe reversion of a certain tract of land in fee, described in the declaration, of which the defendants were tenants in dower in right of the wife, for her life; that she had cut and destroyed the timber and wood, standing upon said land, and committed waste to the disinheriting and damage of the plaintiff, etc.
Plea — ’Not guilty. Issue to the jury. The jury found for the plaintiff, and £20 damages.
Motion in arrest — That the declaration is insufficient, not being maintainable against tenant in dower.
Judgment — That the motion is insufficient, and for the plaintiff to recover. This point was decided at Fairfield, August A. D. 1772, upon a demurrer to the declaration in an action of waste, brought against tenant for life.

Opinion:
Exception — That this action was given in England by the Statute of Marl bridge, 52 Hen. 3d, which does not extend here. To which it was answered, that true said statute does not extend here; yet it is reasonable there should be a remedy in such cases, for the reversioner to recover his damages, and that reason was universal and ought to govern here. Judgment — Declaration sufficient. See Rose v. Hays, action of waste against tenant by the curtesy. New Haven, January Term, A. D. 1791.