Banks v. Wells

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…