Menéndez v. Registrar of Property of Caguas
Menéndez v. Registrar of Property of Caguas
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
An execution sale of a property made by the marshal of the District Court of Humacao was recorded in the Registry of Property of Caguas with the curable defect that the attachment which the marshal stated to have levied on the property had not been recorded in the registry. The party interested in the record took the present appeal because he maintains that the record of the attachment in the registry was not necessary and, hence, the said curable defect does not exist.
In an ordinary action brought in said court for the foreclosure of a mortgage, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff for a certain sum, and in- order to enforce the same the marshal of the court was directed to satisfy it out of the personal property of the debtor, and if none could be found, then out of his real property found in the district. In compliance with said order the marshal attached and subsequently sold the property involved in this appeal. Said attachment was not recorded in thé registry.
It is not necessary for us to stop to determine the scope and application of those provisions, since they have no bearing on the instant case, for although the action herein is styled one for the foreclosure of a mortgage, the judgment did not order that plaintiff recover his debt through the sale of the mortgaged property but confines itself to adjudging that the plaintiff recover the amounts claimed by him and it was directed that the judgment be satisfied out of the personal property of the debtor and if tMs be insufficient, then out of his real property, for which reason the applicable law is section 250 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that the marshal must execute the writ against the property of the judgment debtor, by levying on a sufficient amount of property, if there be sufficient, and selling the same in order to pay to the plaintiff the amount fixed in the judgment. '
The decision appealed from must be reversed.
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