Patterson v. McNeill-Patterson & Associates, Inc.

Goolsby, Judge:

Plaintiff Larry M. Patterson appeals from the trial court’s grant of a jury trial pursuant to Rule 39(b), SCRCP, to defendant McNeill-Patterson. We affirm.1

Patterson filed a summons on February 26, 1991, and an amended complaint on April 22, 1992, requesting a nonjury trial. In its answer, McNeill-Patterson made no demand for a *472jury trial either by endorsing the demand upon the pleading or by serving the demand in writing within ten days after service of the last pleading in accordance with Rule 38(b), SCRCP.

On April 7, 1992, McNeill-Patterson moved for a jury trial, asserting…