Legal Opinion

Cordova v. Broadbent

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided May 25, 1988No. 17488PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SCARBOROUGH, Chief Justice.

Phillip Cordova and his wife, Cordy Cordova, brought suit against all possible claimants to quiet title to 126.562 acres in Taos County. The trial court quieted title in the Cordovas, and an intervening land grant organization, the Arroyo Hondo Arriba Community Land Grant Association, appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court finding standing in the association, ordered that the Cordovas petition be dismissed, and awarded costs of the appeal to the association, holding the Cordovas’ had shown insufficient color of title to prove title to the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Alfred v. AndersonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1974

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Stueber v. PickardNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1991
  2. Southard v. FoxNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1992
  3. Bellet v. GrynbergNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1992
  4. Matter of Estate of KerrNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1996
  5. Johnston v. Sunwest Bank of Grant CountyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1993

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