Legal documents
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Anthony J. Albert Papers,
Series I consists primarily of probate, mining, and real estate records. Probate records include those involving the Kiker, Lischke (Siringo Ranch), and Rolshoven estates. Series II includes materials from the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. Series III includes Albert's correspondence from 1937 to 1974. Most of the correspondence concerns legal issues in New Mexico and includes several letters from Thomas B. Forbis, an attorney in Roswell, New Mexico.
Arthur Bibo Collection of Acoma and Laguna Pueblo Documents,
Carmen Quintana Collection,
Edna McClellan Papers
Edward L. Bartlett Papers,
Ellen Kemper papers concerning Navajo Hopi relocation
The collection focuses on resistance and litigation in response to the forced relocation of the Navajo, pursuant to Public Law 93-531 (Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974).
Estancia News Herald Collection
Eugene A. Fiske Papers,
Francis C. Wilson Papers,
Hiram Dow papers
This collection contains the papers of Hiram Dow. It includes material related to his work with the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, his involvement with the Humble Oil and Refining Company legal cases, along with personal and business correspondence and general material related to the oil industry.
Hudspeth and Hewitt Records,
Collection consists of records of the Hudspeth and Hewitt law firm. Includes correpondence, financial records, and a variety of legal documents. Correspondence involves either Andrew H. Hudspeth or John Y. Hewitt.
John H. Cockrell Papers,
Mariano Chavez Family Papers,
Mauro Montoya Collection
Mauro Montoya Collection documents significant episodes of New Mexico history during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents are divided into the four main periods: Spanish period, The Mexican period, U.S. Territorial period (incl. U.S. military occupation), New Mexico Statehood period.
New Mexico Attorney General Records,
New Mexico Capitol Buildings Improvement Commission Records,
New Mexico State Engineer Records,
New Mexico State Police Division Records,
New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department Collection
These records were originally deposited by the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department from safety deposit boxes of New Mexico banks.
Significant items in these collections are deeds, powers of attorney, and court records that reveal the activities of land speculators in assembling enormous tracts in the post-Civil War years.
Some materials in Spanish.
Paul J. Bernal Collection,
Register of the Pecos Valley-Artesian Conservancy District Legal records
Pecos Valley land and water transactions. Includes court case files, Desert Land Act applications, water appropriation rights and New Mexico State and Territorial records of Lincoln, Eddy, Chaves, Otero, and San Miguel counties. The bulk of material focuses on land and water rights, and the access to streams and ditches.
Reies Lopez Tijerina Papers
Papers consist of court documents and notes concerning Tijerina's M-1 carbine (in possession of the New Mexico History Museum). Weapon was in Tijerina's possession at the time of his arrest in 1969. Also included are a bilingual reward poster "Who killed Eulogio Salazar," two publications by Alan Stang (Reies Tijerina: The Communist Plan to Grab the Southwest, 1967/New Mexico: The Coming Guerrilla War, 1969), and Frankie McCarty's Land Grant Problems in New Mexico, 1969.
Richard Rosenstock legal papers pertaining to La Compañía Ocho
This collection includes, pleadings, depositions, exhibits correspondence, and notes accumulated by Richard Rosenstock while representing La Compañía Ocho, a community logging company from Northern New Mexico, in its claims against the United States Forest Service, Duke City Lumber and others.
Robert S. Vrooman collection pertaining to Wen Ho Lee and Los Alamos National Laboratory
The collection documents the U. S. Government's investigation of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, scientist at Los Alamos National Labs, accused (and ultimately vindicated) of espionage. "Clinton's Scapegoat: The Persecution of an American Scientist" provides first hand documentation of Vrooman's experience with the investigation.
Roy Tilghman Collection
One folders containing misc documents including wills, land transfers and other legal matters; religious books and a job of José Salaices, 1789-1818. The sketch includes information regarding Apache campaigns. A descriptive inventory is included with the documents. Many of the documents have been roughly translated.