Kipnis v. County of Maricopa

MOLLOY, Judge.

The question before us is whether unpaid assessments levied by an irrigation district on land while it was owned by the State and leased to others remained a charge on the land after it was purchased from the State by appellant.

We are concerned with 80 acres of land within the area served by the Buckeye Water Conservation & Drainage District, an irrigation district organized pursuant to Ch. 6 of Tit. 45 of our Revised Statutes also possessing drainage powers.1 The State of Arizona owned the land in question for many years prior to 1959, and leased it to a succession of lessees,…