De Soto Falls Development Co. v. Libby

GARDNER, Justice.

Inadequacy of a remedy at law is the foundation stone upon which equity jurisprudence rests (Price v. Hall, 226 Ala. 372, 147 So. 156; Samples v. Grizzell, 230 Ala. 176, 160 So. 538; Bullard Shoals Mining Co. v. Spencer, 208 Ala. 663, 95 So. 1), and, where the wrong can be compensated in money, and the action at law affords adequate remedy, equity will not take jurisdiction without some independent matter of equitable cognizance (Hunt v. Jones, 203 Ala. 541, 84 So. 718; City of Tuscaloosa v. Williams, 229 Ala. 542, 158 So. 753).

Reduced to the last analysis, the bill in…