In re Bannon’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The word tool is defined to be some simple instrument used by the hand, and the object of the legislature evidently was to exempt articles of small value and of frequent and daily use by a poor mechanic upon whose manual occupation of these tools his family depended for subsistence. It was never intended that the debtor should be protected in carrying on an extensive trade with a large capital, even in tools, while his creditor was suffering for the money, justly due him.” [quoting with approval Kirksey v. Rowe, 114 Ga. 893 , 40 S.E. 990 (1902).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Siegel