46 So. 414 | Miss. | 1908
delivered the opinion of the court.
It has been the unbroken authority in this state, since the decision of the case of Trotter v. Dobbs, 38 Miss., 198, that a judgment debtor may successfully interpose his claim of exemption as against the execution creditor at any time before actual sale, if the right to claim exemption exists at that time. In the case of Dulion v. Harkness, 80 Miss., 9, 31 South., 416, 92 Am. St. Rep., 563, it is held that there is no difference between judgments at law and decrees in equity as to this right. In the case now before the court the contention is that, because the claims forming the foundation of the decree were for rents and profits due the appellants and arising out of the common estate owned by them before partition, and because the court in making the
The court below having overruled the demurrer, its action is affirmed, and the cause remanded, with leave to answer in thirty days after mandate filed.
Affirmed. •