Opinion
[No. 196, September Term, 1967.]
Decided April 11, 1968.
REMOVAL OF CASES — Right To Jury Trial — A Case Which Is Non-Jury In The Removing Court Continues To Be Non-Jury In The Court To Which It Is Removed. pp. 539-540
H.C.
Decided April 11, 1968.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County (WEANT, J.).
Action in assumpsit by Albert Dunn against Benjamin Greenberg in the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Plaintiff's prayer for removal of the case to the Circuit Court for Carroll County was granted and the order upheld in Greenberg v. Dunn, 245 Md. 651. From an order denying plaintiff's prayer for a jury trial, he appeals.
Order affirmed, with costs.
The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and SINGLEY, JJ.
Carl A. Durkee for appellant.
William A. Fisher, Jr., with whom was William D. Macmillan on the brief, for appellee.
The appellant Dunn, who in Greenberg v. Dunn, 245 Md. 651, persuaded us to uphold an order of the Superior Court of Baltimore City removing a case in assumpsit, in which a jury trial had not been timely prayed, from that court to the Circuit Court for Carroll County ( see, Houston v. Lloyd's Consumer Acceptance Corporation, 241 Md. 10), is now appealing from an order of Judge Weant denying Dunn's prayer for a jury trial and setting the case for trial before the court. The order appealed from must be affirmed, since under Chappell Chemical and Fertilizer Co. v. Sulphur Mines Co. of Va., found among the unreported cases in 85 Md. 684, reported in full in 36 A. 712, aff'd, 172 U.S. 474, and Greenberg v. Dunn, supra, a case which is non-jury in the removing court continues to be non-jury in the court to which it is removed.
Order affirmed, with costs.