Byrd v. Governor of Missouri

Tompkins, J.

dissenting.

I dissent from the opinion of the Court, believing that in equity, no allowance would be made to the administratrix for building a house on the land of the intestate. ■On the contrary, that at law and in equity, it is a waste to expend the money of the intestate in this manner; and that the administratrix would lose her money equally as if she had built a house on the land of any living person without his assent.