Court Opinion

ID: 9469028
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:30:17.764634+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:10.904112
License: Public Domain

WIDENER, Circuit Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in all of the opinion except certain of those parts regarding the right to a jury trial to which I respectfully dissent.
So far as the opinion may be based on waiver of jury trial, failure to raise the issue timely, or the like, I agree with it.
So far as the opinion relies, however, on failure to grant a jury trial because the issues involved, including fraud (the other issues having been removed), were equitable, I think that the reasoning expressed in Dairy Queen v. Wood, 369 U.S. 469, 82 S.Ct. 894, 8 L.Ed.2d 44 (1962), requires trial by jury. Thus, I would re-parse the case in line with that holding, as consistently as I might with the principles expressed in the majority opinion, vacating, however, for a new trial, such parts of the judgment as depend upon issues which ought to have been tried by jury.