50 Vt. 648
Decided January 15, 1878
Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1878-01-15
Replevin for a horse. The case was referred, and the referee reported substantially as follows: The plaintiff, a laborer, working by the month at different places, but having his home with his father, who owned a small place of three or four acres in Rutland, and was in part dependent on the plaintiff for support, bought the horse in question in the fall of 1869, when it was a sucking colt, and kept it until it was attached by John Cain, on May 3, 1871, on a writ in his…
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1898
2 state decisions
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Decided 1878-01-15
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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by
¶2The law of the subject of the exemption of horses from attachment and execution is sufficiently propounded, developed, and illustrated in Hickok v. Thayer, 49 Vt., Webster v. Orne, 45 Vt., and Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt., for all practical purposes to be served in the present case. It is sufficient, therefore, to say that the horse in question, as it is set forth in the exceptions, was not exempt.
¶3Judgment affirmed.