Hammond v. Pickett

Charles E. Bryant, having an unsatisfied judgment against A. B. Pickett, sued out a writ of execution, and placed the same in the hands of M. P. Hammond, sheriff of Harris county, who at once levied the same upon Pickett’s automobile. Pickett, alleging that he was a married man and the head of a family, and that he owned no carriage or vehicle other than the automobile in question, and that he used the same for his own personal business in the selling of land and was dependent upon it for making a living, and claiming that the same was exempt from execution and forced sale for the payment of…