Spanish land grant heirs fight for mineral rights
*There’s an unprecedented boom in the South Texas oil and gas industry. Some Latino families have claimed for generations that the land where that boom is happening is lawfully theirs, granted to their ancestors. It’s not surprising that those families are increasing their legal pressure and claims … VL
By Barry Davis, KENS 5
George Farias says he just wants, like any other Texan to collect what is rightfully his. The question is: is money held in the state’s unclaimed property division really his?
Farias is one of thousands of descendants of original Spanish land grant holders. They say proceeds from oil wells on those ancestral lands are theirs.
Attorney Eileen McKenzie-Fowler represents, what she says is more than 14,000 of the descendants who are trying to collect on that money.
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