STATE OF MISSOURI ex rel. B.D. VAN STAVERN a/k/a ROBERT D. VAN STAVERN, AND MARY E. VAN STAVERN, AND THE TOWERS AT PARKVIEW BAY, L.L.C., Relators v. THE HONORABLE BRUCE E. COLYER, JUDGE, DIVISION 26, CIRCUIT COURT OF CAMDEN COUNTY, MISSOURI

Relators brought a petition for a Writ of Prohibition after their request for a jury trial on certain claims against them for money damages was denied. The court ordered Counts I and II of claims brought by CRE Venture 2011-1, LLC, against Re-lators to be “court tried.” 1 The right to a trial by jury is constitutionally guaranteed and “shall be preserved to the parties inviolate.” Mo. Const, art. I, section 22(a); Section 510.190.1; Rule 69.0Í(a). 2 “Because the right is inviolate, unless a specific statute says otherwise or the parties have waived their right, each party has a right to have…