Potts v. Mathieson Alkali Works

How courts have described this case

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• “No court can base its decree upon facts not alleged, nor render its judgment upon a right, however meritorious, which has not been pleaded and claimed.”
• “No court can base its decree upon facts not alleged, nor render its judgment upon a right, however meritorious, which has not been pleaded and claimed.” (emphasis added)
• “No court can base its decree upon facts not alleged, nor render its judgment upon a right, however meritorious, which has not been pleaded and claimed.” (emphasis added)
• “Fraud, when it is to be relied upon, must be expressly and clearly charged. It cannot be the subject of trial until it is brought in issue by the pleadings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).