Grimes v. Bryne
Supreme Court of Minnesota
APPEAL EROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP RAMSEY COUNTY. This was an action of Replevin commenced in the District Court of Ramsey County, by the Plaintiff Grimes against Defendant Bryne, to recover the possession of a stock of goods and groceries which the Defendant had levied upon “under a warrant of attachment issued by a Justice of the Peace of said County, in an action therein pending wherein the said Grimes was a Defendant.
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APPEAL EROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP RAMSEY COUNTY. This was an action of Replevin commenced in the District Court of Ramsey County, by the Plaintiff Grimes against Defendant Bryne, to recover the possession of a stock of goods and groceries which the Defendant had levied upon “under a warrant of attachment issued by a Justice of the Peace of said County, in an action therein pending wherein the said Grimes was a Defendant. The Complaint sets forth, that said warrant was improperly and illegally executed by taking property of the Plaintiff which was exempt by law therefrom, which property so…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Flandrau,- J.
Three important questions are presented by this case. 1st — "Whether the exemption law of August 12th, 1858, was intended to operate upon debts ■contracted prior to its passage. 2d — That if it was so intended, it, to that extent, contravenes the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and of our own State, that laws shall not be passed impairing the obligation of contracts. Const. U. S. Art. 1, Sec. 10; Const. Minn. Art. 1, Sec. 11; and 3d— Whether the Plaintiff falls within the class of persons entitled to its benefits.
The Plaintiff in the Court below…
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