The appellants on November 7th, 1902, filed a bill in Chancery alleging in substance that they are the owners, giving the source of title, of certain de
On the day of the filing the bill the Chancellor made the following order thereon: “Let injunction issue as prayed for upon the Complainants, or someone for them, giving bond in the sum of $300.00, with two sureties or a surety company to be approved by the Clerk of this Court, conditioned to pay all costs or damages, the defendants, or either of them, may sustain by reason of the improper suing out of said injunction should the same be disallowed or bill dismissed.”
It does not appear that the bond was ever executed as required by this order or that the order ever became effective by the issuing of the injunction therein allowed.
A notice of Us pendens covering the machinery, etc., was recorded on the 20th of November, 1902. A demurrer to the bill was filed on grounds, (1) there is no equity in the bill; (2) the complainants have a plain and adequate remedy at law; (3) the bill does not allege that the complainants had possession of the personal property described in the bill; (4) the bill does not allege that the complainants had a title to said personal property described in the bill. This demurrer was overruled and the defendants answering under oath say: “They admit that they caused the sheriff to levy and sell the personal property .described in said bill, but positively deny that the machinery and property so levied upon were fixtures upon the said real estate on the date of the levy and sale; defendants deny that said machinery and property at the time of the levy and sale was not personal property, but alleges that the same was personal property and that the same, nor any part thereof, was separate from the realty
The complainants entered an appeal from this decree assign as errors here (1) the refusal to grant the
The equity stated in t'he bill is an illegal levy of a writ of attachment on machinery alleged to be a part of realty belonging to complainants in an action against a former owner of the lands, a sale of the property, and a threatened severance and removal of the same from the land. The prayers ask for necessary injunctions to prevent such severance and removal, and for further relief by au annulment of the sale and conveyance of the property alleged to be a part of the realty.
Although the bill prayed for injunctions and an order was made thereon allowing injunctions as prayed, upon giving bond, it is admitted that no bond was given and no injunctions were ever issued, so this phase of the relief asked is eliminated. The other relief asked for has no equity to support it.
There was testimony that subsequent to the sale the property had been severed and removed from the land.
There is no independent equity shown in this case to declare to be illegal and void the sale proceedings, or to cancel the bill of sale of property that was allowed to be detached from land and removed therefrom, or to require the purchaser to restore the property to its original status. The complainants did not give bond to make effective the writs of injunction allowed by the court to prevent the property from being detached and removed from the land, and the allegations and proofs do not entitle them to relief in equity after the property has been severed and removed. See Smith v. Davis, 22 Fla. 405, P. & A. Ry. Co. v. Jackson, 21 Fla. 146.
The decree is affirmed.
