Simonds v. Gulley
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Greene. Teespass by Simonds against Gulley, for taking and carrying away a horse. At the trial, the proof on the part of the plaintiff was, that at the time of the trespass complained of, he had a family, and that the horse taken by the defendant was the only one that the plaintiff owned.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Greene. Teespass by Simonds against Gulley, for taking and carrying away a horse. At the trial, the proof on the part of the plaintiff was, that at the time of the trespass complained of, he had a family, and that the horse taken by the defendant was the only one that the plaintiff owned. The defendant showed that the horse was levied on by him, through a deputy, as sheriff of Greene county, by virtue of an execution against the plaintiff, at the suit of one Kerr. It was also shown that at, and previous to, the levy, the plaintiff’s wife had a separate…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
— The statute under which the plaintiff herb claims exemption for his property from execution, is somewhat peculiar in its terms. It directs that two beds and furniture, two cows and calves, two spinning wheels, two axes, two hoes, five hundred weight of meat, one hundred bushels of corn, all the meal that may at any time be on hand, two ploughs, one table, one pot, one oven, two water vessels, two pair of cotton cards, all books, one churn, three chairs, one work horsey mule, or pair of Work oxen, one horse or ox cart, one gun, all tools or implements of trade, twenty head of hogs, one…
2Cited by1 opinion
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