Case Name: Freeman v. Deming and others
Court: New York Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1844-11-11
Citations: 4 Edw. Ch. 598
Docket Number: 
Parties: Freeman v. Deming and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Edwards' Chancery Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 598–598

Head Matter:
Freeman v. Deming and others.
Nov. 11, 1844.
A defendant is not to be punished for an infringement of so much of a writ of injunction as goes further than the prayer of the bill.
Practice. Injunction.
On a motion for an attachment for violating an injunction, it appeared that the working of the latter carried the enjoinment further than the prayer in the bill.

Opinion:
The Vice-Chancellor, in the course of his opinion, observed :
The language of the injunction differs from the prayer of the bill; but it is, nevertheless, to be understood as if it followed the prayer: and the defendants are to be enjoined no further than the bill requires.
Mr. Dana, for the complainant.
Mr. A. P. Mati, for the defendant.