Mandamus resolves postjudgment jurisdictional dispute

X Extreme Construction won a $200,000 judgment in Dallas district court against three defendants. One of the defendants then sold his house, after which X Extreme  obtained a receivership over, inter alia, the sales proceeds. After more skirmishing, the Dallas court issued a writ of execution to sell the house; the purchasers filed suit in Denton County to enjoin the sale; and the Dallas court ordered the purchasers to dismiss the Denton case. The resulting standoff led to a petition for writ of mandamus, which the Dallas Court of Appeals conditionally granted in In re Marzwanian, No. 05-18-00485-CV (June 12, 2018) (mem. op.) The Court concluded that the Dallas court lacked jurisdiction over the purchasers, who were not parties to the underlying litigation, and that no statute or common law principle required litigation about the purchasers’ title to occur in the court that appointed the receiver.