Caro v. Hansen

Defendant appeals from a summary judgment for plaintiff in this action for specific performance of a contract provision. Defendant argues that there were issues of material fact that preclude summary judgment or, in the alternative, that the court should have ordered a continuance of the motion, pursuant to ORCP 47F, so that defendant could have obtained discovery to meet the motion. We affirm.

Plaintiff is an attorney who represented defendant in, among other matters, a federal civil rights action. After defendant failed to pay under a fee agreement that he had entered into with plaintiff,…