Legal Opinion

Benítez v. Benítez-Gómez

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided April 30, 1925No. 3330Published

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wole

delivered tbe opinion of tlie court.

A creditor having in his favor a mortgage nevertheless *217elected to file an ordinary suit to recover Ms debt. The said creditor obtained an attachment before judgment, a judgment by default, executed on the property covered by the mortgage and bought in the property himself at the execution sale. We have before us a suit to annul all or some of the foregoing proceedings.

The District Court of San Juan, Second Section, sustained a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that the judgment of another court of equal jurisdiction could not be attacked in this form.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Blood v. LightCalifornia Supreme Court · 1869
  2. Cooper v. RicketsonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
  3. Simmons v. ParkerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1916
  4. Royal Ins. Co. of Liverpool v. HumphreyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1917

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