Case Name: C. E. Campbell v. Thomas Benningon
Court: Lorain Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1904-04-29
Citations: 16 Ohio C.C. Dec. 239
Docket Number: 
Parties: C. E. Campbell v. Thomas Benningon.
Judges: .Marvin and Winch, JJ„ concur.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Decisions
Volume: 16
Pages: 239–240

Head Matter:
HOMESTEADS — EXEMPTIONS.
[Lorain (8th) Circuit Court,
April 29, 1904.]
Hale, Marvin and Winch, JJ.
C. E. Campbell v. Thomas Benningon.
1. Section 5438 Rev. Stat. Applies Only to Homesteads in Ohio Occupied by Persons Living Here.
Section 5438 Rev. Stat., providing for the exemption of a homestead not exceeding $1,000 in value to the execution debtor, applies only to a homestead situated within Ohio, and which is occupied by persons living in the state.
2. Section 5441 Rev. Stat. not Applicable to Nonresidents.
A nonresident of Ohio is not entitled to select and have set off to him $500 in lieu of a homestead under Sec. 5441 Rev. Stat. The exemption is created only in favor of residents of the state.
ERROR to Lorain common pleas court.
Fritz Rudin, for plaintiff in error:
Tbe right to claim the benefit of the exemption laws should be considered a “privilege or immunity,” within the meaning of Sec. 2, Art. 4, and the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution. See Jacoby v. Dotson, 7 Dee. 412 (5 N. P. 282) ; Sproul v. McCoy, 26 Ohio St. 577; Mack v. Degraff & R. Quarries, 57 Ohio St. 463, 482 [49 N. E. Rep. 697; 63 Am. St. Rep. 729].
The phrase, “resident of Ohio,” as used in Sec. 5441 Rev. Stat., should be construed as qualifying the clause, “any minor child or children of a deceased relative” immediately preceding.
Metcalf & Cinniger, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
HALE, J.
(Orally.)
The action was commenced before a justice of the peace and appealed to the court of common pleas, and the only question made in the case is, whether a motion to discharge and dissolve an attachment which had been issued in the case, was wrongfully overruled by the trial court, for-the reason that the property attached was exempt from execution.
The facts upon which the motion was submitted were agreed to,, from which it appears that the defendant was a nonresident of the state. The question made is, whether there was exempt to him in lieu of a homestead $500.
Section 5438 Rev. Stat. provides for the exemption of a homestead to-the execution debtor in the sum of $1,000. That can only mean a home stead situated within the state, to be occupied by the person living in the state.
Section 5441 Rev. Stat. exempts from execution, property of the value of $500 in lieu of a homestead. The judgment debtor having no homestead, there is exempt to him in lieu of such homestead property of the value of $500, and under that clause this nonresident claims this exemption. The court below ruled that he was not entitled to it. It ruled correctly. The exemption provided for by Sec. 5441 Rev. Stat., in lieu of a homestead has no application to controversies with nonresidents. Its benefits are limited to residents of this state, and the judgment of the court of common pleas is affirmed.
.Marvin and Winch, JJ" concur.