Case ID: mass_15/html/0157-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jeremiah Glidden versus Stevens Smith.
    Under the statute of 1805, c. 100, two beds only were held to be exempted from attachment and execution, where the debtor’s family consisted of himself and wife, and three young sons.
    The defendant., a deputy sheriff, having an execution, in favor of one Daniel D. Rogers, against the plaintiff, seized certain articles of household furniture, amongst which was one bed, leaving two beds only for the use of the plaintiff’s family, which consisted of himself, his wife, and three young sons. The plaintiff brought this action of trespass because, by the statute of 1805, c. 100, beds necessary for a debtor and his family are wholly exempted from attachment and execution ; and it was contended that the proviso in the first section, by limiting the number of beds to one for every two persons, had exempted three, where there were five in a family. And the Court seemed inclined to that construction in case the sex of the different members of the family rendered the use of the same bed by three of them inconsistent with the common decencies of life. But, in the present case, the three boys might well occupy one Led, and would be sufficiently accommodated therewith.
    
      Belcher for the plaintiff.
    
      Perley for the defendant.
   Plaintiff nonsuit.