This case comes to us again following remand to the trial court in the earlier decision of Barrow County Airport Auth. v. Romanair, Inc. , 254 Ga. App. 722 563 SE2d 467 2002. After determining that rent adjustments were required to be made within a reasonable time after a “change date” specified in the lease, we remanded the case to the trial court to determine whether such an adjustment had, in fact, been made within a reasonable time. Because we find that the trial court properly resolved the issue on remand and properly cast costs against the Authority, we affirm the judgment. In Barrow County Airport Auth. , we were called upon to construe a lease agreement between the parties. We affirmed most of the trial court’s rulings regarding the interpretation of the lease, finding that the trial court correctly construed the lease to limit any increase in the rent to no more than 30 percent of the previous payment, even if the Authority had not previously made any adjustments, and to require some action by the Authority to increase the rent. Id. at 725 3. We found that the trial court erred in interpreting the lease to mean that the Authority was required to make rent adjustments before the beginning of each “change date” specified in the lease because the lease provided that the rent ” ‘shall be subject to adjustment at the beginning of each five year period.’ ” Id. at 725 4. We concluded that language in the lease required the Authority to make rent adjustments “ within a reasonable time at the beginning of the five-year period. Cit.” Id. at 726 6. We could not determine from the record before us on appeal whether the almost seven-month period from the latest “change period” on September 1, 2000 to March 27, 2001, when the Authority made the rent adjustment, was a “reasonable time.” We therefore remanded the case to the trial court “to resolve this issue.” Id. The trial court resolved the issue against the Authority, finding that this period was “not sufficiently ‘at the beginning of the five year period’ to permit the Authority to increase the rent.” The Authority appeals that decision.
1. Originally, the parties stipulated the facts and participated in a bench trial. Barrow County , supra, 254 Ga. App. at 724. After remand, however, the Authority filed a jury demand. The Authority now contends the trial court erred in resolving this issue when a jury demand had been filed and the question was one of fact for a jury. We do not agree.
