2012 Vermont Statutes
Title 12 Court Procedure
Chapter 187 SMALL CLAIMS PROCEDURE
§ 5535 Jury trial
§ 5535. Jury trial
A plaintiff beginning a cause under the procedure waives a jury trial. The defendant may have a hearing before the court under the procedure. He may, prior to the day upon which he is notified to appear, file with the court where the cause is pending a request for a trial by jury and his affidavit that there are questions of fact in the cause requiring trial, with specifications thereof, and that such is intended in good faith, together with a jury fee of $10.00 and thereupon at the day set for hearing, trial by jury shall be had as in ordinary cases. (Amended 1975, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1977, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
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