45 Fla. 551 | Fla. | 1903
The appellant, a married woman, filed a bill in the court below to restrain the appellee from selling under execution against her husband certain real estate which she claimed as her separate statutory property: A tempo
As held in Baya v. Town of Lake City, 44 Fla., 491, 33 South. Rep. 400, “when application is made to dissolve a temporary injunction upon bill, answer and affidavits filed by the respective parties, the chancellor must be governed by the weight of the evidence, and unless it clearly appears that the ruling upon such motion is against, the weight of the evidence it will not be reversed on appeal.’’ In this case the evidence was sufficient to sustain the action of the court in dissolving the injunction, and this order will not be disturbed.
The further direction of the decree that the bill be dismissed was error. The cause had been at issue only six weeks and the time for taking testimony had not expired. The complainant had a right to a final hearing after full proofs, and the bill should not have been dismissed upon motion to dissolve based upon affidavits. Baya v. Town of Lake City, supra.
The injunction in this case was granted without notice to defendant, upon complainant filing an affidavit that such notice would accelerate the injury apprehended. Notice to the defendant should have been required, as such an affidavit can have no application to a case, the injury threatened is the making of a judicial sale on legal sale day as advertised by the sheriff.
The decree of the court below in dissolving the injunc