Jefferson Davis County v. Long

Citations

• 94 Miss. 538
• 49 So. 613

Syllabus

<p>1. Sixteenth Sections. School lands. Waste by lessee.</p> <p>A lessee of sixteenth-section school land has no right to substantially injure the reversion by destroying the timber thereon, nor by making a non-destructive use thereof.</p> <p>2. Evidence. Judicial notice. ■ Turpentining pine trees. Effect.</p> <p>The court does not judicially know whether or not extracting turpentine from pine trees causes a substantial damage as the necessary or usual result.</p> <p>3. ScHoon Lands. Waste. Suit for. Declaration. Demurrer.</p> <p>A declaration, in an action by a county against a lessee of a sixteenth-section school land, alleging that the lessee was committing waste, and making solely a commercial use of the pine timber thereon by extracting crude turpentine is not demurrable.</p>