§48.7SIGNIFICANT AUTHORITIES
The right to trial by jury in a civil proceeding in Washington is guaranteed solely by Wash. Const, art. I, §21. The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not apply. Bird v. Best Plumbing Group, LLC, 175 Wn.2d 756,768,287 P.3d 551 (2012); Sofie v. Fibreboard Corp., 112 Wn.2d 636, 771 P.2d 711, opinion amended, 780 P.2d 260 (1989).
In determining the scope of the right to trial by jury guaranteed by Wash. Const, art. I, §21, as well as the particular actions to which it applies, a court will look initially to the right as it existed at the time the state constitution was adopted in 1889...
