Case ID: fla_68/html/0355-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Whitfield, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Albert S. J. Marsh and George Marsh, Appellants, v. J. E. J. Marsh, et al., Appellees.
    
    Opinion Filed November 24, 1914.
    An order striking from a bill of complaint matters that have some proper relation to the subject matter of the litigation is erroneous.
    Appeal from Circuit Court for Volusia County; Jas. W. Perkins, Judge.
    Order reversed.
    
      Bi'ewart & Bly and Tom B. Steioart, for Appellants;
    
      Landis, Fish & Hull, for Appellees.
   Whitfield, J.

This appeal is from an order sustaining “Exceptions” taken to a bill of complaint. The bill seeks to vacate an order confirming a sale of lands made in a partition proceeding on the grounds of fraudulent conduct on the part of one of the parties to the suit for partition which resulted in a sale of the property at a grossly inadequate price far below its real value at the time.

The paragraphs of the bill of complaint that were expunged by sustaining the exceptions are not scandalous and it cannot be said that they are wholly immaterial or impertinent, since they give particulars of the fraudulent conduct on which the relief is sought. Without considering the propriety of the procedure in taking the “exceptions to the bill of complaint,” the order which in effect struck from the bill the designated matters set up as a basis for the relief sought is erroneous and is reversed.

Shackleford, C. J., and Taylor, Cockrell and Hocker, J. 0., concur.