Robinson v. Myers

Judge Ewing did not sit in this case.

The record in this case, together with an extraneous document used here by consent, purporting to contain instructions proposed by the plaintiff and overruled by the Court, presents, when properly scrutinized and considered, but one question: that is — Is “ a bona fide housekeeper with a family,” in this state, who owns two work beasts — one here, and the other in Tennessee, within his immediate control — entitled to the exemption, from execution, of the one here?

The fourth proviso in the general execution statute of 1828, (1 Stat. Law, 641,) whether…