# United Prairie Bank-Mountain Lake v. Haugen Nutrition & Equipment, LLC

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · March 14, 2012 · 813 N.W.2d 49

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8246165

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED PRAIRIE BANK-MOUNTAIN LAKE v. HAUGEN NUTRITION & EQUIPMENT, LLC
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** March 14, 2012
- **Citations:** 813 N.W.2d 49; 2012 Minn. LEXIS 78; 2012 WL 832833
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Gildea
- **Judges:** Dietzen, Gildea, Stras
- **Cited by:** 30 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a bank’s claim for the recovery of reasonable attorney fees was a legal, rather than equitable claim, because it was an action seeking a monetary payment for contractual indemnity, and thus the appellants were entitled to a jury trial on attorneys’ fees under Arti…
- holding that the Minnesota Constitution provides the right to a jury trial for a claim to recover attorney fees based on a contract
- stating that the right to a jury trial extends only to actions at law, not actions in equity

## Opinion text

GILDEA, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I join in the dissent of Justice Dietzen.

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