Opitz v. Brawley

Sec. 241.08, Stats., provides in part:

“Nor shall a chattel mortgage of personal property which is by law exempt from seizure and sale upon execution, except a purchase-money chattel mortgage, be valid unless the same be signed by the wife of the person making such chattel mortgage, if he be a married man and his wife at the time be a member of his family, and unless such signature of such wife be witnessed by two witnesses.”

Sec. 272.18, Stats., provides exemption from seizure or sale upon execution, among other things, of “(3) Library. The library of the debtor and every part thereof; but…