Cloonan v. Goodrich

*281The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This is an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the presiding judge of the Labette county district court to grant a jury trial in two consolidated actions pending before him in which petitioners herein are defendants and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is plaintiff. We issued an alternative writ. The defendant made his return thereto, whereupon the plaintiffs filed a motion for judgment on the ground that the answer stated no defense as a matter of law.

The petition for a writ of mandamus stated that two replevin actions were…