State ex rel. Stevens v. Carson

Reese, Ch. J.

This is an application to this court, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, for a peremptory writ of mandamus to respondent, who is the sheriff of Fillmore county, requiring him to appraise certain personal property which has been levied upon by him as the property of relator, in order that $500 worth of said property may be set off to relator as exempt in lieu of a homestead, it being alleged that he has neither lands, town lots, nor houses subject to exemption.

*502It is alleged that certain judgments have been rendered against relator, and that, after the levy, he had filed…