35 Minn. 388 | Minn. | 1886
1. Section 310, chapter 66, Gen. St. 1878, provides for the exemption from attachment or sale, on final process, of, among other things, certain live-stock, and “the necessary food” for the same “for one year’s support, either provided or growing, or both, as the debtor may choose;” and also of “the provisions for the debtor and his family necessary for one year’s support, either provided or growing, or both;” such “food” and “provisions” to “be chosen by the debtor, his agent, clerk, or legal representative, as the case may be;” also “necessary seed grain” (not exceeding certain quantities) “for the actual personal use of the debtor, for one season, to be selected by him.” A limited value is placed upon some of the articles ex-
2. Where a levy is made upon growing crops, under sections 303, 315, chapter 66, supra, not by taking manual possession of the property levied upon, but by a constructive seizure evidenced by filing a copy of execution and return with the town clerk, and afterwards, when the crops have become ripe for harvest, a sale of the same is made, the wrongful taking may properly be said to have been consummated on the day of sale; so that, in an action of claim and delivery, or for a conversion, the value of property taken may properly be shown, estimated, and found as of that date. Sherman v. Clark, 24 Minn. 37; Hossfeldt v. Dill, 28 Minn. 469, (10 N. W. Rep. 781.)
These conclusions dispose of what we regard as the substance of