AUSTIN, TX -- More than 600 descendants of a Mexican settler have sued Texas over the alleged 1870s seizure of a royal land grant, claiming that they are entitled to the mineral revenue the state has ...

ARROYO HONDO, N.M. – Whose land is it anyway? Private homeowners in Northern New Mexico have found themselves in the middle of a legal dispute dating back to colonial times after discovering they've ...

Heirs and homeowners are currently locked in a dispute over Spanish land grant in New Mexico. Private property owners can't sell their properties, refinance, or get insurance policies until the courts ...

In this March 26, 2013 photo, a for sale sign on a property on the Arroyo Hondo Land Grant, the historical northern New Mexico Spanish land grant. Heirs and homeowners currently are locked in a ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - More than 600 descendants of a Mexican settler have sued Texas over the alleged 1870s seizure of a royal land grant. Joaquin Galan received a land grant later known as Palafox ...

ARROYO HONDO, N.M. (AP) – Fernando Martinez’s family has lived on the Arroyo Hondo Land Grant for more than two centuries, passing property from generation to generation in the popular area near Taos.