Kreig v. Fellows
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Humboldt county. A. E. Cheney, District Judge, The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The statute exempts “ two horses,” not two workhorses, or plow horses, as is contended for by respondent. Not two-horses of any particular gender, or age, or size, or value, but “two horses” without qualification.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Humboldt county. A. E. Cheney, District Judge, The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The statute exempts “ two horses,” not two workhorses, or plow horses, as is contended for by respondent. Not two-horses of any particular gender, or age, or size, or value, but “two horses” without qualification. It is not the kind of horses but the calling of the person claiming the exemption, and the use to which the. horses are put or can be put, that must determine the contention. II. Manifestly only persons engaged in the business of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Biqelow, J.:
The question involved in this action is whether two stallions are exempt from execution. The plaintiff claims that they are, under the third paragraph of section 3243, Gen. Stat., upon tbe ground, that he is engaged in the business of husbandry, and uses them in that business. The facts as found by the court are as follows: “The court finds from the testimony that plaintiff, George Kreig, was on the 1st day of November, 1891, and since the year 1889 had been, the owner in possession of a large ranch on the Humboldt river, near Winnemucca, in said county, and during…
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