in Re Tarunkumar "Ravi" Murjani ( 2021 )

NUMBER 13-21-00200-CV
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
IN RE TARUNKUMAR “RAVI” MURJANI
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.
ORDER
Before Justices Longoria, Hinojosa, and Tijerina
Order Per Curiam
On June 24, 2021, relator Tarunkumar “Ravi” Murjani filed a petition for writ of
mandamus and a motion for emergency temporary relief in the above-referenced cause.
Through this original proceeding, relator seeks to compel the trial court to vacate its
November 11, 2020 “Order Partially Granting Independent Executor’s Amended Motion
for Information and Accounting,” which was issued in trial court cause number P-36,766
in the Probate Court of Hidalgo County, Texas. Relator asserts that the trial court abused
its discretion and acted without plenary power and the requisite jurisdiction when (1) it
issued a discovery order compelling relator’s “extensive” production of documents; (2) the
discovery order was inconsistent with a final agreed order, which rendered the documents
sought irrelevant; and (3) the “document production served no other purpose but to
facilitate one party’s improper and untimely efforts to contest the relief afforded through
the final agreed order.” By motion for emergency temporary relief, relator seeks to stay
enforcement of this order. Real parties in interest Raju Murjani, individually, and Sunder
Murjani, individually and as independent executor of the estate of Lal Rewachand Murjani,
deceased, have filed a “Joint Response to Motions for Temporary Relief” through which
they oppose relator’s request for temporary relief in this proceeding and in the companion
case filed separately in our appellate cause number 13-21-00201-CV.
The Court, having examined and fully considered the motion for emergency
temporary relief and the joint response thereto, is of the opinion that the motion for
emergency temporary relief should be granted. Accordingly, we grant the relator’s motion
for emergency temporary relief, and we order the trial court’s “Order Partially Granting
Independent Executor’s Amended Motion for Information and Accounting” to be stayed
pending resolution of this original proceeding. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.10(b) (“Unless
vacated or modified, an order granting temporary relief is effective until the case is finally
decided.”).
The Court requests that the real parties in interest, Tanuja Moorjani and Anjali
Murjani, and Sunder Murjani, or any others whose interest would be directly affected by
the relief sought, including Raju Murjani and Sunder Murjani in his capacity as
independent executor of the estate of Lal Rewachand Murjani, deceased, file a response
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to the petition for writ of mandamus on or before the expiration of ten days from the date
of this order. See id. R. 52.2, 52.4, 52.8.
PER CURIAM
Delivered and filed on the
25th day of June, 2021.
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