Webb v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The facts of this case may be stated as follows: The appellant, on the 28th of January, 1867, sued out an attachment against the appellee, in the circuit court of Henry county, which was executed by summoning one George Searcy, a person supposed to be indebted to said defendant, as garnisbee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry. Tried before Hon. J. McCaleb Wiley. The facts of this case may be stated as follows: The appellant, on the 28th of January, 1867, sued out an attachment against the appellee, in the circuit court of Henry county, which was executed by summoning one George Searcy, a person supposed to be indebted to said defendant, as garnisbee. The garnisbee appeared, and answered in writing, that he was indebted to said defendant in the sum of seven hundred and eighty-six 73-100 dollars. At the spring term of said court, in 1869, the plaintiff, said appellant,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
The issues made in this record do not involve any question of constitutional power to make the exemption in controversy. Nor do they present any question which puts the policy of exemption laws upon trial. If they did, it seems to me that it would not be difficult to show that in a great republican and agricultural nation, as this is, it is of the utmost importance to the stability and prosperity of the State, that all its citizens, in whom its sovereignty is vested, shall have homes, and the means of support for their families and the education of their children. In such an inquiry, it is to…
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