33 Ky. 441 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1835
delivered the Opinion of the Court—
The record in this case, together with an extraneous document used here by consent, purporting to contain instructions proposed by the plaintiff and overruled by the Court, presents, when properly scrutinized and considered, but one question: that is — Is “ a bona fide housekeeper with a family,” in this state, who owns two work beasts — one here, and the other in Tennessee, within his immediate control — entitled to the exemption, from execution, of the one here?
The fourth proviso in the general execution statute of 1828, (1 Stat. Law, 641,) whether interpreted according to its letter, or to its obvious policy, should be understood as intended to secure to every housekeeper with a family, against the claims of judgment creditors, the use
As therefore, the facts in this case conduced to prove-, jhat the plaintiff had a work beast which he had carried "to Tennessee, -and there left, subject to his control at :-any time, the verdict and judgment in favor of the defendants, in this action of trespass, for selling under execution the only work beast belonging to him in this state,'was not without evidence, or contrary to law, and should not therefore 'be disturbed.
- Wherefore, it is considered that the judgment be afi 'firmed-.