Case ID: frd_9/html/0680-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DARR, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NELSON v. AMERICAN NAT. BANK & TRUST CO. et al.
    No. 1359.
    United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, S. D.
    Jan. 12, 1950.
    Atchley & Atchley, Chattanooga, Tenn., for plaintiff.
    Frazier, Roberts & Weill, Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendants.
   DARR, Chief Judge.

This suit originated in a state equity court. In the initial pleadings in that court the plaintiff made demand for a trial by a jury. Now comes the defendant, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, and moves to strike the demand for a jury.

The demand for a jury trial in the state court has no legal effect here. No demand for a jury trial has been made since the removal, which is necessary under Rule 81(c), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. Ferris v. Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp., D.C., 8 F.R.D. 489.

The defendant’s motion will be treated as a motion to strike the case from the jury calendar and is allowed.

If appropriate issues are presented under which the plaintiff would be entitled as a matter of right to a jury trial, except for the absence of an appropriate demand for a jury, and said issues are accompanied by a request for a jury trial, consideration will be given the application.

Order accordingly.