Case ID: or-app_81/html/0516-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted April 21,
    reversed and remanded October 8, 1986
    HANSON, Appellant, v. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, Respondent.
    
    (85-1130; CA A37097)
    726 P2d 409
    Nancy A. Borneman, Coos Bay, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the brief was Rossi & Borneman, Coos Bay.
    Lynne W. McNutt, Coos Bay, argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief was McNutt, McNutt & Thrush, Coos Bay.
    Before Richardson, Presiding Judge, and Newman and Deits, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Plaintiff brought this action for a declaratory judgment, ORS 28.010, seeking a declaration that a judgment lien is invalid. Defendant moved for dismissal of the complaint on the ground that it does not state a cause of action. The trial court granted the motion and plaintiff appeals.

A complaint for declaratory relief may not be dismissed for failure to state a claim if it states a justiciable controversy. Reynolds v. State Board of Naturopathic Exam., 80 Or App 438, 722 P2d 739 (1986); Aetna Casualty v. Smith, 81 Or App 384, 725 P2d 611 (1986). The complaint states a justiciable controversy, and it was error to dismiss it.

Reversed and remanded.