Bellina v. Graybar

BARRY, Judge.

Plaintiffs’ petition prayed for $8,000, legal interest, reasonable attorney’s fees, and all costs. Defendants answered and filed a reconventional demand praying for $80,035, interest, reasonable attorney’s fees, and all costs. After rendering a judgment on September 24, 1984 the trial court granted defendants’ motion for a new trial. The defendants requested a jury trial.

The plaintiffs’ first motion to strike the order for a jury trial was denied in 1985. On the morning of trial in January, 1986 a second motion to strike was filed on the grounds the jury bond had not been posted…