163 S.W.2d 730 | Tex. App. | 1942
This is an appeal from a judgment perpetually enjoining the appellants, G. A. McGehee and wife, and D. A. Bradshaw, constable of Dallas County, from selling at execution sale certain personal property belonging to the appellee, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, judgment debtor in a judgment obtained by McGehee and wife. The court below found that the property involved constituted tools of trade and was therefore exempt from forced sale.
It appears that the appellee, who is a widow, owns and operates the Thrift Beauty Shop in Dallas. The property involved in the execution consists of two Blue Streak electric dryers, one Rilling electric dryer, one General Electric fan, one Majestic electric curler, three occasional chairs, one facial chair, one shampoo chair, four steel chairs, one day bed and pad, three walnut dressing tables with mirrors, and one magazine rack. All this property was shown to have been used in, and necessary for, the operation of appellee's beauty parlor.
We think the trial court was correct in his conclusion that the above property constituted tools and apparatus of trade within the meaning of Article 3835, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. The appellants contend that because some of the machinery was electrically driven such property is excluded from the statute. With this contention we cannot agree. The property thus electrically driven could not be rightfully classed as "ponderous power driven machinery" such as a system of huge printing presses operated by employes, which has been held to be not within the statute. In re Turrentine Thompson, D.C.,
The judgment is affirmed.