Ex parte Larrea y Fernandez

• Jurisdicción: Cuba
• Número de expediente: Case No. 145
• Fecha: 30 Junio 1932
• Emisor: Corte Suprema (Cuba)

Cuba, Supreme Court.

Case No. 145

Ex parte Larrea Y Fernández.

Aliens — Position of — Equality with Nationals — Constitutional Guarantees of — Attachment of Property — The Law of Cuba.

The Facts.—In this case the State had brought an action against several debtors, including the appellant, and had obtained a preliminary attachment against the appellant's property. The attachment was granted on the sole ground that he was an unnaturalised alien.2 The appellant claimed that the relevant provision of the Law on Civil Procedure was

unconstitutional, being in violation of Article 10, Sect. 3, of the Constitution. That article provided as...