Wagner v. Maxey

<p>Abstract of the Decision.</p> <p>1. Equity, § 41*—when jurisdiction not exercised because. of adequate remedy at law. On a bill seeking to set aside an award of prizes and praying that a new award be made, where it appeared that one of the defendants, as the publisher of a newspaper, had offered prizes to persons obtaining the largest number of subscriptions, and where the bill charged that the award was fraudulent, and where it appeared that the prizes had been delivered and that the most that could be obtained was a money judgment, held that the remedy was at law and not in equity, and that the decree dismissing the bill for want of equity should be affirmed.</p> <p>2. Specific performance, § 4*—when not decreed of contract relating to personalty. Equity will not decree the specific performance of a contract which relates to personalty, where compensation in damages furnishes a complete and satisfactory remedy.</p> <p>3. Equity, § 50*—when mil not exercise jurisdiction. Courts of equity do not sit for the purpose of entertaining bills, the only object of which is to secure damages.</p>