Case Name: Don BANKS, Cathy Banks and Ghetto Acres, Inc., Appellants, v. J.R. WELLS, Jim Wells and Allen Parts & Equipment Co., Respondents
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1993-09-22
Citations: 123 Or. App. 356
Docket Number: 91CV 3250CC; CA A74845
Parties: Don BANKS, Cathy Banks and Ghetto Acres, Inc., Appellants, v. J.R. WELLS, Jim Wells and Allen Parts & Equipment Co., Respondents.
Judges: Before Richardson, Chief Judge, and Deits and Durham, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 123
Pages: 356–357

Head Matter:
Submitted on record and appellants’ brief December 18, 1992,
reversed and remanded September 22, 1993
Don BANKS, Cathy Banks and Ghetto Acres, Inc., Appellants, v. J.R. WELLS, Jim Wells and Allen Parts & Equipment Co., Respondents.
(91CV 3250CC; CA A74845)
859 P2d 1177
Patricia D. Gaw and Julie Jones, Roseburg, filed the brief for appellants.
No appearance by respondents.
Before Richardson, Chief Judge, and Deits and Durham, Judges.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered after the court granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint. Plaintiffs raise four assignments of error. We address only one because it is dispositive.
Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint and other pretrial motions. Plaintiffs responded and, in the caption and body of their response, requested oral argument. The court declined to permit oral argument and granted all of defendants' motions. Plaintiffs assign error to the denial of their request for oral argument.
UTCR 5.050(1) provides, in part:
' 'There shall be oral argument if requested by the moving party in the caption of the motion or by a responding party in the caption of a response."
In Coleman and Coleman, 117 Or App 333, 335, 844 P2d 234 (1992), we said: "UTCR 5.050 is mandatory: There shall be oral argument if it is requested." (Emphasis in original.) The court's refusal to allow oral argument was reversible error. State ex rel Frohnmayer v. Bicar, Inc., 119 Or App 458, 461, 850 P2d 1163 (1993).
Reversed and remanded.