Show JUDGE ZANE ON exemptions the system of exempting the em am aloyes of public curp corporations orations from attachment or execution for the evilee tion of just demands upon them la is not in all respects the 0 of public policy which those who advocate it claim it is true that the authorities mainly uphold it for the reason that the public service might mcglat otherwise be interfered with if not seriously impeded but they go no further than this the intention being of cour seto not allow private claims to militate against the general welfare even temporarily there is no expression amounting or looking to right to shelter from the just claim of a creditor for this itself would be against public policy in that it would be an incentive to dishonesty honesty dia and prodigality while creating in the community a distinctly though disagreeably favored class it seems to us ua that when for in stance a single man works for a municipal corporation and receives a large salary the rule ou ought me ht not to be extended so far as to on enable him to evade payment for the clothes behas be has on or any others for that mat ter nor for the meals or lod lodgings giDge with which he is provided these are all necessaries without which he could not attend to his bis public duties at all and surely no DO court fugit to say that a portion of hie hiat earnings cannot be applied in IB the payment but some courts do say so nevertheless because they are disposed to construe oon etrue the rule strictly and thus make of the law a most unel antle and contrivance tr at such times it affords us ua pleasure to be able to note that judge zane looks at things differently we believe he is as strict a constructionist as any jurist we have 1 yet had while it is also certain that he ranks ranke with the ablest and yet he can see wherein the blind mud and unreasoning adherence to a rule may in certain emergencies be improper if not diba disastrous he departs from the pattern of judge jeffries of unsavory memory who although a thorough lawyer and scholar was yet so hidebound that he would scatter merit to i the he wind in order to uphold a purely technical point or sustain all the con of practice this kind of thing was waa bad enough for it would be infinitely intini tely worse now the case decided by judge zane is ie of course different from those in which the claim is of a purely personal nature but we hope that with our advancing intellectual attainments and aid our increased ability to shape measures to needed ends there will be some re of the rule spoken of even k when the matter is altogether persons personal not to the extent of actual deprivation or inflicting harm barm upon the debtor or his bis dependencies but to the extent of securing and maintaining ordinary uprightness in the community why should the law permit naif hall of a poor laborers s wage to be taken in satis fac tion of a debt when perhaps they hey are small and his family is large slid ana the rule let the one who has haa a small or no family and a large salary escape altogether we admit that the law is a bad one and we hope to see it modified but it to la not much it if any wone thau than the rule |