Case Name: WILLIAM JACK v. GARRISON AND ELLIOTT
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1876-05
Citations: 2 Shan. Cas. 112
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILLIAM JACK v. GARRISON AND ELLIOTT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Cases with Notes and Annotations
Volume: 2
Pages: 112–112

Head Matter:
WILLIAM JACK v. GARRISON AND ELLIOTT.
Knoxville,
May Term, 1876.
TAX ON LITIGATION. Exemptions not subject to levy for.
The taxes from which there is no exemption are not such as originate in or arise out of suits, but those in the hands of a revenue officer for collection. [See Code, sec. 706, and notes.]
Cited and construed: Code (T. & S.), sec. 2111a; Shannon’s Code, secs. 3796 and 3799.

Opinion:
TuRkey, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
After t-he enumeration of articles of property exempt from execution, the Code, at sec. 2111a, provides:
"All of said personal property and homestead shall be exempt front seizure in criminal as well as in civil cases, but not exempt from distress or sale for taxes," etc. [see Shannon's Code, secs. 8796 and 3799].
The language of this act makes it clear; the taxes meant in the statute are not taxes originating in or arising out of suits.
The word is-used in reference to' such taxes as are assessed upon polls or property and entered upon the books placed in the hands of the revenue collector. The judgment will be entered here for the value of the property.