James C. Mason, A/k/a Jim Mason, Petitioner v. Farm Credit of Southern Colorado, Aca, and Farm Credit of Southern…

Summary

The court held that a party’s entitlement to a civil jury trial must be determined from the plaintiff’s most recently filed amended complaint, not the superseded original complaint. Because the amended complaint’s claims against Mason were primarily legal—conversion and replevin—with only a less substantial equitable accounting claim, Mason was entitled to a jury trial. The court reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with that ruling.