Praggastis v. Clackamas County

This is an action for negligence and breach of statutory duty under the Oregon Tort Claims Act. ORS 30.260 to 30.300. Plaintiff alleges that defendant’s employes and agents negligently failed to docket, as a judgment against her former husband, her divorce decree and accompanying property settlement agreement in accordance with ORS 18.320 and that, as a consequence, she lost the priority of her decree against her former husband’s property and was damaged in the amount of $100,000 when he filed for bankruptcy. The trial court directed a verdict for defendant on the grounds that the decree and…