Team

As used in a statute prescribing the mode of passing when any wagon, carriage, &c., shall meet or overtake a team on the highway, means a vehicle, with the animals drawing it, used for carrying loads, as distinguished from one used for carrying persons.

Hotchkiss v. Hoy, 41 Conn. 568.

In a statute allowing recovery for damages to any person, or to his team or carriage, "team" is not confined to animals attached to and drawing a vehicle, but includes cattle or horses, in droves, driven along the highway.

Elliott v. Lisbon, 57 N. H 27.

A " team " by law exempt from execution may be either one or any number of animals, which a householder or head of a family uses in the business of providing for a family.

Wilcox v. Hawley,.31 N. Y. 648; Becker r. Becker, 47 Barb. 497.

A single horse may be deemed a team, within a statute exempting a debtor's team from execution, when kept and used as such; and, if a debtor owns one horse and uses him with another which he does not own, his horse is exempt.

Lockwood v. Younglove, 27 Barb. 505; Hoyt v. Van Alstyne, 15 Id. 568; Wheeler v. Cropsey, 5 How. Pr. 288.

A horse, harness, and cart, belonging to a public carman, are exempt from execution as a team. Harthouse ?;.

Rikers, 1 Duer, 606; Eastman v. Caswell, 8 How. Pr. 75.

That " team " cannot include a cart, see Morse v. Keyes, 6 How. Pr. 18. One horse or two horses, with their harness and the vehicle to which they are customarily attached for use, may be claimed exempt as a team.

Brown v. Davis, 16 N. Y. Supreme Ct. 43.

Team -work

In a statute exempting from execution two horses kept and used for team work, means work done by a team as a substantial part of a man's business, as in farming, staging, express carrying, drawing of freight, peddling, the transportation of material used or dealt in as a business. This is clearly distinguishable from what is circumstantial to one's business, as a matter of convenience in getting to and make collections, or to see persons for business purposes, and from family use and convenience, pleasure, exercise, or recrea^ tion. None of these uses of a horse are suggested by the expression.

Hickok c, Thayer, 49 Vt. 372. Teamster.

A person is a " teamster " who is engaged with his own team or teams in the business of teaming,; i.e., in the business of hauling freight for others for a consideration, by which he habitually supports himself, and his family, if he has one.

Brusie v. Grifl Sth, 34 Cal. 302.