Farr v. Buckner

One Presjey T. Buckner, in 1867, absconded, taking with him money and personal property of the value of some twenty thousand dollars. He left debts owing to various persons of over seventeen thousand dollars. His creditors sued out a writ of attachment and seized his property real and personal. His wife, one of the appellees, demanded and had set oil:' to her three hundred dollars as exempt from the attachment. Some three thousand dollars was realized from the sale of the attached property, and paid into the clerk’s office for distribution. While the attachment proceeding was pending,…