Jones v. Jones

KEITH, Judge.

The respondent-husband appeals from an adverse judgment entered in the court below in a bench trial. The petitioner-wife was granted a decree of divorce and the judgment partitioned the community property among the parties. We will speak of the parties as husband (appellant) and wife (appellee), rather than by the designations used in the trial court proceedings.

Although the husband has several other points, we focus our attention upon his second point of error, the denial of a trial by jury. Although a jury demand was made on September 18,1978, and a jury fee paid at such time,…