Stump Corp. v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

The present appeal gives us the opportunity to clarify the scope of Rule 56.1 of the Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the power of the trial court to order the retention or deposit of a check issued by the Secretary of the Treasury in favor of a public works contractor in order to subject the disposition of said check to the results of an action for the *177recovery of money filed against said contractor. We éxpressly left this question open in Commonwealth v. Superior Court, 98 P.R.R. 513 (1970).1

The trial court denied the order to secure the effectiveness of the judgment requested by…