Davidson v. Hannon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of replevin, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Calhoun, J. facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The photographic lens was exempt from attachment and execution, as a tool of the debtor’s trade.
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Action of replevin, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Calhoun, J. facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The photographic lens was exempt from attachment and execution, as a tool of the debtor’s trade. Atwood v. DeForest, 19 Conn., 513; Seeley v. Gwillim, 40 id., 106 ; Patten v. Smith, 4 id., 450 ; Watson v. Elliott, 7 Gray, 70; Howard v. Williams, 19 Mass., 80; Wallace v. Bartlett, 108 id., 52; Barker v.…
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
This is an action of replevin to recover property attached. The only question necessary for us to decide upon this appeal is, whether the court below erred in holding such property was not exempt from attachment and execution, under that clause of General Statutes, § 1164, which exempts “ implements of the debtor’s trade.”
The property in question is a photographic lens. It belonged to one Peters, for whose debt it was attached. He was a photographer, with a place of business in Hartford. He had mortgaged his photographic apparatus and materials, including this lens, to the plaintiff. This…
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