Case Name: LEWIS vs. ANDREWS
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 1 Mart. (o.s.) 197
Docket Number: 
Parties: LEWIS vs. ANDREWS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 197–197

Head Matter:
LEWIS vs. ANDREWS.
Spring 1811.
II. District.
Court cannot try a fact, unless the party has an opportunity of asking for a jury.
Baldwin for the plaintiff,
produced the defendant's power of attorney, and moved that the, court might, on proof of the execution of it, order judgment to be entered.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Martin, J. alone.
It cainot be done. The proof of the execution of the power, is a nutter of fact which is properly triable by a jury. The defendant, having had no opportunity of praying for a jury, cannot be said to have waved his right thereto.
Motion Denied.