STEWART v. COLLIER

Mr. J. Harry Foster, for appellant, submits: The automobile attached, and advertised for sale, is admittedly a part of the owner's homestead and personalty, and cannot be sold under judgment lien recovered against it under the automobile statute of 1912. Homestead is not subject to levy and sale: 99 S.C. 410; 28 S.C. 71; 32 S.C. 264; 73 S.C. 329; 26 S.C. 1; 24 S.C. 424; 37 S.C. 118; 107 S.C. 366; Code 1912, sec. 348, subdiv. 4; Const. 1895, art III, sec. 28; Code 1912, vol. I, sections 3711-3722; 106 S.C. 362; 69 S.C. 326; 14 Rich. 251; 2 S.C. 557; 84 S.C. 563; 13 Rich. 277; Cooley on Constitutional Lim. (7th Ed.), p. 127; 26 Enc. of L., 2d Ed. 280; 11 S.C. 333; 15 S.C. 593; 21 S.C. 375, 381. The Automobile Act of 1912, the homestead exemption statutes appearing in Code of 1912, and the Constitution of 1895, article III, sec. 28, must be construed together. Messrs. Dunlap Dunlap, for respondent, submit: The Automobile Act of 1912 was enacted by the legislature in the exercise of its police power, and is constitutional: 8 Cyc 863; 103 U.S. 344; 26 L.Ed. 505; 106 S.C. 366; 92 S.E. 508 (N.C.); 106 S.C. 333.