Case ID: ala_222/html/0661-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BOULDIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(133 So. 696)
    CHEESEMAN et al. v. SHAW.
    6 Div. 828.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    March 19, 1931.
    Rehearing Denied April 23, 1931.
    Clifford Emond and Erie Pettus, both of Birmingham, for appellants.
    G. P. Benton, of Fairfield, for appellee.
   BOULDIN, J.

The sole error insisted upon is the rendition of a judgment nil dicit without the intervention of a jury and writ of inquiry.

The action is upon promissory notes with claim for “reasonable attorney’s fees,” as stipulated in the notes.

A defendant must demand a jury trial within thirty days after the perfection of service on him. Code, §§ 8595, 9498. Unless filed within time, the right of trial by jury is waived.

The record shows complaint filed February 11th. It does not show the date service of summons was perfected on defendant. No demand for a jury was filed until August 9th. Error must affirmatively appear.

Affirmed.

ANDEESON, C. J., and GAEDNEE and FOSTEE, JJ., concur.