Parshley v. Green

A sled used by the debtor in drawing wood and timber, cut from his land, to market for sale, is exempt from attachment as a tool of his occupation, under Con. St., c. 205, s. 2 : a wagon, used only for convenience or pleasure, is not exempt.

Trover, for a sled and a wagon. Facts found by tbe court. The sled and wagon were attached as the property of the plaintiff, I)oc. 4, 1876, by tlie defendant, as a deputy sheriff, on a writ against the plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed that tlie sled and wagon were exempt from attachment, as tools of his occupation. The plaintiff was a shoemaker ky trade, and owned ten dollars’ worth of shoemakers’ tools, and also worked at farming. About two years previous he exchanged some tillage-land for a fifteen-acre lot of wood and timber, with a view of cutting and taking the wood and timber to market and for bis own use, when not employed at liis trade ; and for this purpose he obtained the sled and used it in that business a good part of tlie winter of 1874-5, and some of 1875-6, and owned tbe land at the date of tlie attachment. The wagon was liis only one-horse buggy, and lie used it with his horse, riding, and for tlie purposes for which such wagons are ordinarily used. The plaintiff had not, at tlie date of the attachment, tools of the value of one hundred dollars, calling the sled and wagon tools.