Moseley v. Alspaugh

Jenkins, Justice.

Whether an action in a superior court having both law and equitable jurisdiction is one in equity, such as will give this court jurisdiction of a bill of exceptions from a judgment therein, is determinable by the allegations and prayers of the petition. Although “the jurisdiction of this court is not limited to good cases in equity, but extends to bad ones also,” yet “the petition is not to be treated as a case in' equity merely because of general language so terming it, where the allegations of fact and the specific prayers do not support the general language used.” To make…