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tract, 1 but other states hold that the title remains in the vendee 

 of the timber, or his assignee, and that all that is lost by the 

 expiration of the time is the right to enter and remove tim- 

 ber not yet taken. 2 If the contract is so worded in a par- 

 ticular case as to make the agreement to remove within a 

 certain time a mere covenant, as a matter of law, the title 

 to the timber will remain in the purchaser even after the ex- 



1. Ala. Contsa West v. Maddox (Ala.) 69 So. 101. 



Ga. Branch v. Johnson (Ga. App.) 71 8. E. 1123; Lbr. Co. v. Gates, 70 S. E. 



672; McRae v. Stillwell, 111 Ga. 65; Baxter v. Mattox, 106 Ga. 344. 

 Ky. Bach v. Little, 140 Ky. 396, 131 S. W. 172; Bell County Land Co. v. Moss, 



97 8. W. 354, 30 Ky. L. Rep. 6. 



Me. Cf. Brown v. Bishop, 105 Me. 272, 74 Atl. 724. 

 Mass. Reed v. Merrifleld, 10 Mete. 155; Kemble v. Dresser, 1 Mete. 271, 35 Am. 



Dec. 364. 

 Mich. Iron Co. v. Nester, 147 Mich. 599, 111 N. W. 177; Macomber v. Detroit 



Etc. R. Co., 108 Mich. 491, 66 N. W. 376; 62 Am. St. Rep. 713, 32 L. R. 



A. 102; Gamble v. Gates, 97 Mich. 465, 56 N. W. 855; Green v. Bennett, 



23 Mich. 464; Haskell v. Ayres, 32 Mich. 93, 35 Mich. 89; Utley v. Wil- 



cox Lbr. Co., 59 Mich. 263; Kennedy v. Dawson, 96 Mich. 83. 

 Mo. Hanna v. Buford (App.) 177 S. W. 662. 

 N". Y. See Fox v. Fitzpatrick, 190 N. Y. 259; 82 N. E. 1103. 

 N. C. Wiley v. Lbr. Co. 156 N. C. 210, 72. S. E. 305; Williams v. Lbr. Co., 154 



N. C. 306, 70 S. E. 631, Hornthal v. Hawcott, 154 N. C. 



228, 70 S. E. 171; Davis v. Frazier, 150 N. C. 447, 64 S. E. 200; Mining 



Co. v. Cotton Mills, 143 N. C. 307, 55 S. E. 700; Lumber Co. v. Corey, 



140 N. C. 462, 53 S. E. 300; Hawkins v. Goldsboro Lbr. Co., 139 N. C. 



160, 51 S. E. 852, 139 N. C. 167, 51 S. E. 855; Bunch Lbr. Co. v. Lumber 



Co., 134 N. C. 116, 46 S. E. 24. 

 Pa. Bennett v. Vinton Lbr. Co., 28 Pa. Super. Ct. 495; Saltonstall v. Little, 90 



Pa. St. 422. 

 S. C. Minshew v. Lbr. Corp., 98 S. C. 8, 81 S. E. 1027; Hill v. Lbr. Co. 90 S. C. 



176, 72 S. E. 1085. 



Va. Furniture Co. v. Rhea, 114 Va. 271, 76 S. E. 330. 

 Wash. Lehtonen v. Water Etc. Co., 50 Wash. 359, 97 Pac. 292. 

 W.Va. Lbr. Co. v. Sheets, 83 S. E. 81 (to grantee of owner.) 

 Wis. Strasson v. Montgomery, 32 Wis. 52 ; Larson v. Cook, 85 Wis. 564. 

 Can. Johnston v. Shortbreed, 12 Ont. 633; Steinhofl v. McRae, 13 Ont. 546. 



2. Ala. Lbr. Co. v. Shepard, 67 So. 286; Wright v. Lbr. Co., 186 Ala. 251, 65 So. 



353; Magnetic Ore Co. v. Marbury Lbr. Co., 104 Ala. 465, 16 So. 632, 53 



Am. St. Rep. 73, 27 L. R. A. 434. 

 Ark. Lbr. Co. v. Eldridge, 89 Ark. 361, 116 S. W. 1173; Lbr. Co. v. Worley (Ark.) 



130 S. W. 1066. 



Ind. Halstead v. Jessup, 49 N. E. 821. 

 Ky. Mineral Etc. Co. v. Lbr. Co. 148 Ky. 82, 146 S. W. 438; Timber Co. v. 



Coal Co., 107 S. W. 733, 32 Ky. L. Rep. 1015. 

 See Lbr. Co. v. Cornett 146 Ky. 457, 142 S. W. 718; Hicks v. Phillips 146 



Ky. 305, 142 S. W. 394. Both cases in which timber was reserved. 

 Me. Davis v. Emery, 61 Me. 140 (apparently overruling Pease v. Gibson, 6 



Me. 81). 



Mo. Land Co. v. Watson, 129 Mo. App. 554, 107 S. W. 1045. 

 N. H. Pierce v. Finerty, 76 Atl. 194, 79 Atl. 23; Hoit v. Stratton Mills, 54 N. H. 



109, 20 Am. Rep. 119. 

 N. J. Wyckoff v. Bodine, 47 Atl. 23; Irons v. Webb, 41 N. J. L. 203, 32 Am. 



Rep. 193. 



Tex. Contra. Oil Co. v. Hamilton (Civ. App.) 153 S. W. 1194. 

 Vt. Lbr. Co. v. Lyman, 94 Atl. 837; DeGoosh v. Baldwin. 82 Atl. 182. 

 Va. Cf. Young v. Young, 109 Va. 222, 63 S. E. 748. 

 W. Va. Keystone Co. v. Brooks, 65 W. Va. 512, 64 S. E. 614. 



