Legal Opinion
United States v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1991No. Nos. 89-2077, 89-2091 and 89-2142PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, the Pueblo of Santo Domingo and the United States, as trustee for the Pueblo, brought this suit to quiet title to approximately 24,000 acres of land in New Mexico that were part of a seventeenth century Spanish land grant to the Pueblo. Defendants are non-Indian claimants to the land under a subsequent Spanish grant. The district court entered summary judgment for defendants, finding that the Pueblo Lands Act of June 7, 1924, ch. 331, 43 Stat. 636, as amended by Act of May 31, 1933, ch. 45, 48 Stat. 108, created a statute of limitations that now bars this…
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