Townsend v. Hagar’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Even if the prayer for judgment was defective for equitable relief, an answer having been interposed, the plaintiff could have any relief 'consistent with the case made by the complaint, and embraced within the issue.’ (Code, § 1207.) “Under our present system of practice a plaintiff is not to be turned out of court, wdien ■ an answer had been interposed, because he has prayed for too much or too little, or for wrong relief. * * * “A court of equity adapts its relief to the exigencies of the case in hand. It may restrain or compel the defendant; it may appoint .a receiver or order an accounting; it may compel specific performance, or order the delivery to the plaintiff of specific real or personal property; or it may order a sum of money to be paid to the plaintiff, and give him a personal judgment therefor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oliva v. Fernandez