Plaza Properties, Ltd. v. Prime Business Investments, Inc.
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Sears, Justice.
We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether the appellants, Plaza Properties, Ltd. (Plaza) and its sole shareholder, Wayne Weeks, waived their right to a jury trial by failing to object when the trial court issued an order granting their request for a continuance but conditioning the continuance on the appellants proceeding with a bench trial at the next available non-jury calendar. We conclude that the appellants had a duty to object to this order, and that their failure to do so bars them from asserting on appeal that the trial court improperly denied them a jury…
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