12 Wash. 154 | Wash. | 1895
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The respondent, Winsor, having obtained a judgment in the superior court of King county against appellants, Charles and Matilda Mc-Lachlan, (husband and wife), thereafter caused a writ of garnishment to be issued against the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, as garnishee, requiring it to answer as to any indebtedness by it owing to defendants. The answer of the garnishee disclosed an indebtedness due appellant Matilda Mc-Lachlan in the sum of $661.17, being the amount of loss occasioned by a fire occurring under a policy of insurance issued by it in favor of said appellant, upon household furniture, family wearing apparel, books, jewelry, pictures, carpenter’s tools, etc.; the total amount for which said property was insured was $700, the amount of the loss having been adjusted in said
This court, in Puget Sound Dressed Beef & Packing Co. v. Jeffs, 11 Wash. 466 (39 Pac. 962), held, that the money paid under an insurance policy on property exempt to a householder is itself exempt, and appellants rely upon that case for a reversal of this judgment.
The statement of facts contains none of the evidence taken below, and we think that the judgment entered in the cause is sustained by the findings. The value of the property so insured is nowhere stated in the answer of appellants to the writ of garnishment; nor is it alleged that the property so insured was all of the property of like kind and character which was owned or in use by them at the time said loss occurred. Hence, it does not appear from-their answer that the property insured was exempt, and if it was not exempt, it seems clear that the money arising from the insurance thereon is not exempt.
Upon the argument of the cause before this court various claims were made by appellants’ counsel as to certain stipulations and-proceedings occurring upon the trial below; but, in the absence of any proper rec
No error appearing, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Hoyt, 0. J., and Scott, Anders and Dunbar, JJ., concur.