Galveston Dry Dock & Construction Co. v. United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corp.

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• hus- band “filed an appearance” by responding to wife’s petition for dissolution of marriage
• “It was error to enter a judgment that purported to find hus- band in default, because he was not in default. He had filed an appearance. Under ORCP 69 A, he had not failed to “plead or otherwise defend.”
• trial court erred in awarding attorney fees without employing ORCP 68 process against the spouse who had appeared in case but failed to appear at trial because default procedures do not apply to a person who has appeared in the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).