State ex rel. Snider v. Bierwirth

Section 4906, Revised Statutes, 1889, provides that “each head of a family at his election in lieu of the property mentioned in the1 first and second ■subdivisions of section 4903 may select and hold exempt from execution any other property, real, personal or mixed, or debts and wages, not exceeding in value the -amount of $300.” Section 4907 makes it .the duty of *552the sheriff or other officer in whose hands any execution may come, to notify the defendant, if a resident householder or head of a family, of his rights under the foregoing section, and, if necessary, to summon appraisers to value…