Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Texas

Our grandparents bought some land in 1948. The grandfather passed away some years later. In 1955 the grandmothers

sister and brother-in-law stole the her deed to this land and forged her name in a sale to someone else. She had no

knowledge of this until one year she did not receive her tax statement. When she found out what happen, she got a

lawyer. He filed a lawsuit on her behalf in 1961. He was able to get the tax statement sent back to grandmother for her

to continue paying tax on the her land. We thought that the title was cleared and quit claim back to our grandmother.

Our parents have passed away and all we have to go by is all these court papers filed by grandmother, we have nothing

of the courts decision on this matter. What we have is the person who claims to have bought is land sending letters

now telling us to get off the land and telling us to sign over all rights to the mineral and oil rights to the land. So now

were trying to gather court papers from that period, but so far no luck. The lawyer that answered my legal question before

about order to dismissed asked me if I had a title policy, what is a title policy? When we inquired about the deeds we were told there was no partition deed, but this other person claims he owns the deed and were saying we own the land. We still have relatives living on the land. There is one remaining child of our grandmother still living on that land and

some of her children. What should be our next step?

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