State ex rel. Schnerr v. Laies
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. The saving clause is evidently a dead letter, and is ^directly repugnant to the purview or body’ of the act, and can not stand without rendering the other provisions inconsistent and destructive of themselves. (1 Kent, 462; Plowden, 565 ; Gen. Stat. 1865, ch. 55, p. 608, § 9.)
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was a suit upon an official bond. The respondent was one of the constables of St. Louis township, and, as such, by three several writs of attachment issued from the office of a justice of the peace, against Schnerr, levied upon certain personal propertv mainly consisting of wearing apparel belonging to Schnerr and his family.
The ground stated in the affidavit for an attachment was that Schnerr was about to remove out of this State with intent to change his domicile. Schnerr claimed the property on the ground that it was exempt under the law from legal process, but the respondents held it…
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