Mooring Tax Asset Group, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Tiffani Marks, Individually and as P.R. of the Estate of Elwood Marks, et al., Defendants., 2005 D.C. Super. LEXIS 5
Summary
After plaintiff filed its complaint, the representative of the record owner's estate filed an answer seeking to redeem the property. Plaintiff's counsel then advised the court that he had become aware of a deed that allegedly transferred the property in question to defendant individual. However, the deed, which purportedly contained the signature of the record owner, was dated two years after the record owner had died. Plaintiff sought the preliminary injunction to prevent the individual from conveying the property until plaintiff's claim could be resolved. The court issued a preliminary injunction, holding that (1) plaintiff was virtually certain to prove that the individual did not own the property; (2) without an injunction, it was likely that plaintiff would not obtain the full value of its attorney's fees and costs as provided for by D.C. Code Ann. § 47-1377(a)(2) (Supp. 2004); (3) even without irreparable harm, the likelihood of plaintiff's success on the merits was so high that ...