Burns v. Turner

Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

On February 20, 1913, an execution issued out of a justice of the peace court on a judgment of $196.20 against R. P. Burns, the appellant, and was placed in the hands of J. H. Turner, the appellee, a constable, for service, and was by him served upon Burns. On March 1, 1913, Burns filed with the justice of the peace, in attempted compliance with section 2 of our Exemption Act (J. & A. If 5584), a schedule of his personal property in which he named, item by item, nineteen articles of household property, and set against item twenty,…