Riggs v. Estate of Attakai

OPINION

YAZZIE and FERGUSON filed the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Window Rock Family Court in a quiet title action. We reverse the judgment of the Family Court granting the grazing permit to Tom Attakai and order the Family Court to issue the grazing permit to Riggs, but affirm that part of the Family Court’s decision that the permit is to be held in trust for the daughters of Mary Lou and Phillip Attakai.

I

The Court applies the following facts in deciding the case. When Mary Lou Atta-kai was 15 years old, her maternal grandfather, Paddock, gave her Grazing…