In an action for an accounting, maintained by one or more partners against the other partner or partners, to settle and adjust their partnership accounts and dealings, or by one or more coparceners or tenants in common, to settle and adjust their accounts and dealings, the defendant or defendants shall have the right to trial by jury provided by section 4251 of this title. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 119, eff. March 29, 1972.)