Parshley v. Green
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Trover, for a sled and a wagon. Facts found by tbe court. The sled and wagon were attached as the property of the plaintiff, I)oc. 4, 1876, by tlie defendant, as a deputy sheriff, on a writ against the plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed that tlie sled and wagon were exempt from attachment, as tools of his occupation. The plaintiff was a shoemaker ky trade, and owned ten dollars’ worth of shoemakers’ tools, and also worked at farming.
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Trover, for a sled and a wagon. Facts found by tbe court. The sled and wagon were attached as the property of the plaintiff, I)oc. 4, 1876, by tlie defendant, as a deputy sheriff, on a writ against the plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed that tlie sled and wagon were exempt from attachment, as tools of his occupation. The plaintiff was a shoemaker ky trade, and owned ten dollars’ worth of shoemakers’ tools, and also worked at farming. About two years previous he exchanged some tillage-land for a fifteen-acre lot of wood and timber, with a view of cutting and taking the wood and timber to market…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
The sled was exempt from attachment, but the wagon was not. Wilkinson v. Alley, 45 N. H. 551; Pierce v. Gray, 7 Gray 67; Webster v. Orne, 45 Vt. 40.
The sled was obtained and used by the plaintiff for the purpose of drawing wood and timber, cut from his wood-lot, to the market for sale, and for his own use, and the case finds that he was engaged in this business when not employed at his trade as a shoemaker ; and we think the sled may be regarded as a tool of the plaintiff’s occupation, within the meaning of the statute.
The wagon was a one-horse buggy, and the plaintiff used it for the…
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