75 A. 881 | N.H. | 1910
1. If, as the plaintiff contends, the land was as much a part of her husband's business as the mill in which he converted the trees into lumber, it does not help her; for it is still woodland which was not occupied in connection with any farm or tenement during the marriage. In other words, it is land in which she is not entitled to dower. P. S., c. 195, s. 4.
2. The contention that the land was in a state of cultivation cannot be sustained. A state of cultivation is the converse of a state of nature (Johnson v. Perley,
3. If a life tenant of this land might continue to manage it in the way Snow did for many years before his death (Honywood v. Honywood, L.R. 18 Eq. 306), that would not help the plaintiff; for the question is not as to the rights of a life tenant of the land, but whether she is such a tenant. As has been seen, the test to determine that issue is to inquire whether the land was either in a state of cultivation during the marriage, or occupied in connection with a farm or tenement owned by her husband. As to both of these issues, the court found for the defendants.
Exception overruled.
All concurred. *435