Family Clothing Corp. v. Richardson

This case involves the construction of the exemption laws of the state of Tennessee, being chapter 85 of the Acts of 1933, section 1 reading in part as follows:

"There shall be exempt from execution, attachment and garnishment forty dollars of the salary, income or wages of every person earning a salary or wages, or drawing an income of forty dollars or more per month, and who is the head of a family and resident of the state of Tennessee; . . . ”

By section 7713 of the Code an additional exemption is given as follows:

"To the above allowances, there shall be added as so exempt to heads of…