Pinellas Packing Co. v. Clearwater Citrus Growers' Ass'n

Citations

• 75 Fla. 247
• 78 So. 16

Syllabus

<p>1. The rule is that the prayer for relief in a chancery suit must be predicated upon ¡appropriate allegations of the bill and that the nature and extent of the relief granted is determined by the pleadings in the cause and the proof in support of the allegations of the pleadings.</p> <p>2. Under the prayer for general relief any relief may be given which the nature of the case may require ¡and which is agreeable to the ease made by the pleadings and proof and n'ot inconsistent with the relief specifically prayed for</p> <p>3. The Chancellor having found that the deed upon which the defendant based its claim to the property involved w¡as fraudulent and should therefore be cancelled, was warranted in proceeding to make his decree effectual by directing that the defendant restore to the complainant the possession of the property of which it had wrongfully, ab'out th© time of the institution of the suit, dispossessed him.</p>