People ex rel. Breed v. Wells

The relator asks to strike from the assessment roll the assessment of his farm, on the ground that the same was purchased with bounty moneys and pension moneys received by him by reason of his services in the war of the rebellion. The Revised Statutes provide that property exempt from execution should be held exempt from taxation. Section 1393 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that the pay and bounty of an officer or private in the military service of the United States, and a pension granted by the United States, or by a *196state, for military services are exempt from levy and sale…