Boone v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.

Plaintiff filed suit alleging damages in excess of $75,000 and expressly demanded a trial by jury. Plaintiff subsequently filed an amending petition reducing her demand to the sum of $19,832.20, just below the jurisdictional amount required for a jury trial under LSA-C.C.P. Art. 1732(1). See Act 766 of 1987. Several days later the plaintiff filed a motion seeking to withdraw her request for trial by jury which was granted by the trial court. Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company timely filed a motion for a trial by jury which was denied by the trial court. LSA-C.C.P. Art. 1733.

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