Shriners Hospitals for Children v. Woods

In this garnishment proceeding, defendant Woods appeals an order that disbursed to others a money award that he was to receive from a legal malpractice action. Plaintiffs, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Oregon Scottish Rite Clinics (together, Shriners), sought to garnish the malpractice award to collect on a default judgment against Woods. Woods’s first assignment of error asserts that the trial court erred when it denied his ORCP 71 B(l)(d) motion to set aside Shriners’ default judgment from an earlier proceeding. He contends that failure of service of summons and complaint precluded…