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11 F.R.D. 303

Conrocode v. Ohio Bell Tel. Co.

U.S. District Court

Decided February 9, 1951

U.S. District Court · decided 1951-02-09

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Conceding that the court can direct a jury trial of the damage issue, it also is true that once equity jurisdiction obtains the court can try all equitable and legal issues without the aid of a jury. Here the court feels that it will be able to hear and decide the damage issue as readily as a jury and this course of action will greatly expedite trial. The motion to strike the demand for jury trial of the damage issue will be granted.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including 109 F. Supp. 16 - Steffen v. Farmers Elevator Service Co.

Relies on Strelitz v. Surrey Classics, Inc.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1951-02-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1972

3 federal appellate ·

20195119601970decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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JONES, Chief Judge.

¶1This is an action brought under the reemployment provisions of the Selective Service Act of 1940, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 308. Plaintiff has requested a jury trial. Defendant moves to strike this' request.

¶2It seems quite certain that the issues raised by plaintiff’s prayer for an order directing re-employment, and defendant’s defenses to this prayer are equitable in nature and not triable to a jury. Sterlitz v. Surrey Classics, D.C., 7 F.R.D. 101.

¶3Conceding that the court can direct a jury trial of the damage issue, it also is true that once equity jurisdiction obtains the court can try all equitable and legal issues without the aid of a jury. Here the court feels that it will be able to hear and decide the damage issue as readily as a jury and this course of action will greatly expedite trial. The motion to 'strike the demand for jury trial of the damage issue will be granted.

¶4The plaintiff advances no reasons in support of his request for an advisory jury, and the court can see no reason or need for an advisory jury. This motion will be denied.

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