Lingle State Bank of Lingle v. Podolak

*393URBIGKIT, Justice.

This case presents the debtors’ earnings exemption statute, § 1-17-411, W.S.1977, 1986 Cum.Supp., as applied to a farmer’s wheat crop sales proceeds upon which a bank, as creditor, had executed. We affirm the trial court exemption allowance.

FACTS

Ronald and Donna Podolak are family farmers and ranchers in Goshen County, Wyoming. Lingle State Bank (Bank) had made an operation loan to them, and obtained loan security interest in much of their equipment, livestock, and crops. In the fall of 1985, the lender-borrower relationship became severely strained, and litigation ensued in…