Fields Engineering & Equipment, Inc. v. Cargill, Inc.

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• finding that parties had sufficiently waived the right to jury trial under Rule 39(a) where pretrial order explicitly recited parties’ waiver of jury trial during pretrial conference
• recognizing the presumption “that the trial court considered only competent evidence and disregarded all evidence which was incompetent” (quoting Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Steele, 352 F.2d 822, 830 (8th Cir. 1965))
• holding an oral waiver of trial by jury during pretrial conference is sufficient
• \It is immaterial that the pretrial conference itself was not on the record. The agreement to waive a jury ... was recorded in the pretrial order.\
• “It is immaterial that the pretrial conference itself was not on the record. The agreement to waive a jury ... was recorded in the pretrial order.”

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