Tellis v. Lincoln Parish Police Jury

| We granted a supervisory writ of review regarding this pre-trial dispute over plaintiffs’ request for a jury trial against a police jury and its insurer. The trial court held that the police jury had not waived its right to a judge trial under La. R.S. 13:5105 and granted the police jury’s motion to strike plaintiffs’ jury request. We affirm this ruling. The court also granted the insurer’s motion to strike the jury. Finding this ruling contrary to the holding of the Louisiana Supreme Court in Jones v. City of Kenner, 338 So.2d 606 (La.1976), we reverse.

Facts and Procedural History

Plaintiffs…