Craig v. Bradley

The first task in examining this canse, is to ascertain as far as may be, the groundwork of the case as indicated by tbe bill, and get at the substance of tbe matter on which the complainants rest their claim for relief in a court of equity.

It is just as necessary for his success in chancery, that a complaining party should first state a definite and comprehensible case, and then prove it substantially as laid, as it is at law; and whenever doubts and uncertainties spring from indefinite or ambiguous statements in the hill, or from loose or incongruous proofs, they must generally be resolved…