Blanchard v. Taylor

Clark, Judge.

In this appeal from a non-jury judgment for plaintiffs rendered in the Superior Court of Ware County 1 the enumerations of error are limited to one question: Was there a valid waiver of jury by defendant below, now the appellant? Based on his understanding of counsel’s statement which had been made in the judge’s chambers, the judge ruled such waiver to have occurred. Thereupon, in his proper concern for saving the expense of a jury calendar, the scheduled jury docket was canceled and the case tried before the judge alone.

Counsel for appellant contended that his statement in the…