A trial judge's findings of liability and damages must be confined to the case as pleaded and supported by evidence, and where a judge makes findings beyond the pleadings, draws impermissible adverse inferences, awards relief not sought, and fails to provide adequate reasons revealing a path of reasoning, the judgment will be set aside and the matter remitted for rehearing.
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