54 P. 158 | Or. | 1898
delivered the opinion.
This is an action commenced in the Circuit Court of Umatilla County, to recover the possession of some household furniture seized by the defendant, Turner, on the
Upon the first point the court charged the jury that subdivision 4 of section 282 of the statute exempting
As said by Mr. Justice Williams in Haskill v. Andros, 4 Vt. 609 (24 Am. Dec. 645): “Whatever remedy our laws give to enforce the performance of a contract will
In Mineral Point Railroad Co. v. Barron, 83 Ill. 365, the defendant in the original action was a resident of the state of Wisconsin, and claimed the benefit of the Illinois statute (Rev. St. 1874, chapter LXII, § 14) which provided that “ the wages and services of a defendant, being the head of a family and residing with the same, to an amount not exceeding the sum of $25, shall be exempt from garnishment” ; and it was held that he was entitled to the benefit of such statute. Again, in the case of Sproul v. McCoy, 26 Ohio St. 577, the court say: “Exemptions from execution or sale allowed to ‘every person who has a family,’ under the provisions of the act of April 16, 1893 (70 Ohio Laws, p. 132), may be claimed by any debtor against whom an action is prosecuted in the courts of this state, whether such debtor be or be not a resident of this state. ’ ’ And to the same effect are the cases of Mo. Pac. Ry. Co. v. Maltby, 34 Kan. 125 (8 Pac. 235); Kansas City, etc. Railroad Co. v. Gough, 35 Kan. 1 (10 Pac. 89) ; Bell v. Indian Stock Co. (Tex. Sup.) 11 S. W. 344 (3 L. R. A. 642) ; Wright v. Chicago, etc. R. R. Co. 19 Neb. 175 (56 Am. Rep. 747, 27 N. W. 90) ; Menzie v. Kelly, 8 Ill. App. 259; Wabash Railroad Co. v. Dougan, 142 Ill. 248 (34 Am. St. Rep. 74, 31 N. E. 594) ; Hill v. Loomis, 6 N. H. 263. In some of the states the right of exemption is expressly limited to residents, and such are the provisions of the statutes under which the decisions cited by the appellant were made.
As to the other defense pleaded, it is sufficient to say that the judgment in the justice’s court was upon a sep
Affirmed.