Arizona Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. State

This action was brought by the Arizona Title Guarantee and Trust Company, engaged in a title insurance business in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, against the state and its attorney general to secure a declaratory judgment as to the constitutionality of sections 73-838 and 73-839, Arizona Code 1939, authorizing and directing the board of supervisors to advertise, for four weeks, real estate within the county “held by the state by tax deed” and thereafter to sell the same at private sale to the highest bidder for cash. It is alleged by plaintiff that such sections of the statute are void as…