Legal Opinion
Tecolote Land Grant v. Montoya
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided August 28, 2014No. 34,778; Docket No. 32,275Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTIN, Judge.
{1} We again address the battles between certain descendants of Jose Maria Montoya (the Montoyas) and a land grant known as the Tecolote Land Grant (the Land Grant). Our last significant involvement was Montoya v. Tecolote Land Grant ex rel. Tecolote Board of Trustees, 2008-NMCA-014, 143 N.M. 413, 176 P.3d 1145. The appeal now before us involves unfinished business: whether Montoya controls and precludes the title and possessory claims by the Montoyas to property called the Montoya Ranch that exists within the exterior boundaries of the Land Grant.
{2} We begin with the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tameling v. United States Freehold and Emigration Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Bibo v. Town of Cubero Land GrantNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1958
- Slusser v. Vantage Builders, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2013
- Armijo v. Town of AtriscoNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1957
- Board of Trustees of Tecolote Land Grant v. GriegoNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2004
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