context: It rests its argument upon the similarity between compensatory damages awarded to a tort victim and compensatory damages awarded the petitioners for emotional harm suffered as a result of unlawful discrimination. While the nature of relief sought may be determinative of the right to a jury trial when parties dispute whether a claim is equitable or legal in nature, no such dispute exists here.
citation_a.signal: but see
citation_a.identifier: 96 N.H. 298, 298
citation_a.parenthetical: whether declaratory judgment action is legal or equitable "commonly considered to depend upon the nature of the claim or issue presented"
citation_a.sentence: But see Employers Assurance Co., 96 N.H. at 298 (whether declaratory judgment action is legal or equitable “commonly considered to depend upon the nature of the claim or issue presented”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 102 N.H. 300, 304
citation_b.parenthetical: parties disputed whether defendant entitled to jury trial to resolve statute of limitations issue
citation_b.sentence: See Lakeman v. LaFrance, 102 N.H. 300, 304 (1959) (parties disputed whether defendant entitled to jury trial to resolve statute of limitations issue); Smith v. Manchester Management Corp., 117 N.H. 361, 362 (1977) (parties disputed whether defendant entitled to jury trial to resolve mismanagement of partnership affairs issue subsumed within equitable claim).