Adcock v. Smith

This is a garnishment proceeding to reach what is claimed as exempt wages under the provisions of the Code (M. & V.), § 2931. This section, in effect, exempts from execution, seizure, or attachment thirty dollars of the wages of every me*374chanic or laboring man, and the only question is, does the defendant, William Smith, bring himself within the terms of this exemption. The cause was commenced before a Justice of the Peace and taken by appeal to the Circuit Court, and that Court held that the amount due defendant was due him as the wages of a laboring man and not the subject of garnishment,…