Greenleaf v. Egan
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Simons, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after atrial by the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
In this case, prior to the commencement of the trial, the defendant demanded a jury trial of the issues, without specifying any particular issues. That motion made at that time had to be decided upon the pleadings; and the character of the case made by *317them, and the charact r jf the case subsequently made by the evidence, of course, could not affect the decision upon it. ■
The allegations in the complaint of conversion of specific items would, if there were nothing else in the case, make it what would formerly have been an action at law and properly triable by a jury. But there are also…
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