Cruz Batista v. District Court of Bayamón

Mr. Justice Negrón Fernández

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This Court issued a writ of certiorari to review .the refusal of the District Court of Bayamón to declare void an attachment levied by the marshal of said court on certain merchandise in stock in defendant’s needlework factory and on rents to become due of several leased houses which appeared in his name.

When the lower court ordered that the judgment rendered in the main action be secured, it did so by issuing a general order that the marshal attach “property of the defendant sufficient to secure the effectiveness of the judgment…