15 F. Cas. 87
U.S. District Court
Decided June 15, 1845
U.S. District Court · decided 1845-06-15
<p>Case No. 8,148.</p> <p>State Exemption — Exemption Law Passed aptee Suit Commenced — Greater Exemption— Adoption op Law by Coukt.</p> <p>A suit after it shall have been commenced, cannot be affected by a state law extending the exemption of the property of the defendants, such law never having been adopted by the court; and the law previously adopted authorized an exemption to a more limited extent.</p>
Decided 1845-06-15
¶1OriNION OF
¶2This is -a case in chancery, in which a receiver was appointed, and the legislature of the state having passed a law exempting certain articles of property from execution, in addition to those formerly exempted, a motion is made to extend the exemption under the recent act. But THE COURT held, that the revised act which had been adopted by the court, and under which the present proceedings were instituted, should govern the case. The property was ordered to be sold.