Peaslee v. Sanborn

Clark, J. The plaintiff claims that the tools in controversy 'were exempted from attachment as “ tools of his occupation to the value of one hundred dollars,” and therefore were not con■veyed to the defendant as assignee by the insolvency assignment ‘of the firm of Bartlett & Peaslee. P. S., c. 201, s. 6; c. 220, s. 2. The tools were the property of the firm. The plaintiff claimed 'them as an individual, not as a partner; and his claim cannot be maintained, because the title to the property was in the partner'ship of which he was a member, and not in him as. an individual. If the plaintiff, owning the tools when he became a member of the firm, had retained the exclusive ownership of them, and |had merely allowed them to be used in the partnership business, he might have received the benefit of the statutory exemption. Pond v. Kimball, 101 Mass. 105. Whether the partnership was entitled to the exemption, is a question that is neither raised nor considered. In re Handlin, 3 Dill. 290; Guptil v. McFee, 9 Kan. 30; Bonsall v. Comly, 44 Pa. St. 442; Thurlow v. Warren, 82 Me. 164; Russell v. Lennon, 39 Wis. 570, 573. Judgment for the defendant. Wallace, J., did not sit: the others concurred.