This section is from the book "The Constitutional Law Of The United States", by Westel Woodbury Willoughby. Also available from Amazon: Constitutional Law.
The right to a jury trial in civil cases, whatever the value in controversy, may be waived. No objection to a waiver was made in the early case of Parsons v. Armor;7 nor later in Bamberger v. Terry ;8 nor in Supervisors of Wayne Co. v. Kennicott.9 Indeed the right to waive has not been seriously questioned.
 
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