Medical Finance Assn. v. Wood

This appeal presents the sole question whether section 690.24 of the Code. of Civil Procedure, exempting -from execution automobiles worth not more than one hundred dollars, is applicable to an execution to enforce a judgment based upon a contract existing when the section became a law. This section is part of a statute recasting the law providing for exemptions from executions (Stats. 1935, p. 1966), which took effect September 15, 1935. This statute amends section 690 of the Code of Civil Procedure, in which the whole list of exemptions was formerly contained, to read as follows: “The…