...Hemauer, 135 Wis. 2d 542, 401 N.W.2d 27, 1986 Wisc. App. LEXIS 3973, *3 (1986) (holding "that the [contingent] remaindermen's cause of action for waste did not accrue until [the life tenant's] death because the remaindermen had no right to enforce prior to her death").
Neither party makes any argument that the Grandchildren's claims are time-barred, and it does not appear that they are. But we note that claims of a remainderman for...election either to bring trover for the value of the tree after it is cut, or an action [for trespass] on the case in the nature of waste, in which, besides the value of the tree considered as timber, he..., 51 N.C. 210, 213 (1858). Indeed, the right to bring an action for waste has been codified in Chapter 1, Article 42 of our General Statutes...