Williams v. Overstreet

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is no constitutional right to a trial by jury in an action relegated to the “equity area,” and such a right, if it exists, must be conferred by the enactment of a statute by our General Assembly
• following Foster in identifying 1798 as the key date for an analysis of the right to trial by jury
• “‘The provision in the Constitution of Georgia, that “trial by jury, as heretofore used, shall remain inviolate” means, that it shall not be taken away in cases where it existed when that instrument was adopted in 1798; and not that there must be a jury in all cases.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).