8 S.D. 271 | S.D. | 1896
This case is now before us on rehearing. Our former opinion will be found in 59 N. W. 731. Defendant, a judgment debtor, was ordered, in proceeding supplementary to execution, to deliver to the sheriff a gold watch and chain owned by him, and which he had carried constantly for three years. In the former opinion it was held that these articles were not exempt as “household furniture.” Appellant now contends that .they are exempt, under Sec. 5127, Comp. Laws, which makes absolutely exempt “all wearing apparel and clothing of the debtor and his family.” Whether a watch carried constantly by the debtor should be regarded as wearing apparel, within the intent of the statute, is the only question to be determined.
Under a law providing that the necessary wearing apparel owned by any person, to the value of $100,” shall be exempt, if selected, the supreme court of Oregon held that a watch not exceeding $70 in -value should be considered as an article of “wearing apparel,” and quoted with approval from the language of Hammond, J., in Re Steele, 2 Flipp. 324, Fed. Oas. No. 13 346, as follows: “It would not be doing any great vio