Mandeville, Brooks & Chaffee v. Fritz

In each of these cases the same constitutional question is certified to us under General Laws 1923, Chapter 348, Section 1. Defendants assert that Public Laws 1929, Chapter 1327, amending General Laws 1923, Chapter 337, Section 6, violates Section 15 of Article 1 of the Constitution of Rhode Island providing that “the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.”

The question whether said statute is repugnant to Article XIV of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States is not presented by the certification and defendant’s argument thereon is not considered.

The actions were assumpsit…