Beaulieu v. Bell

We think the amendment made by St. 1987, c. 251, § 1, to G. L. c. 231, § 103, requires that a plaintiff who initiates a civil action in a District Court claiming more than $25,000, and who desires to preserve the right later to claim a jury trial in the Superior Court, must, within thirty days of the commencement of the action, file with the clerk of the *146District Court a claim of jury trial in the Superior Court.3 Failing that, the plaintiff shall have waived the right to a Superior Court jury trial and cannot regain it, even though the defendant preserved rights to a Superior Court jury…