Maricopa County v. Pima County

This is an original proceeding in this court to determine the boundary line between Maricopa county, plaintiff herein, and Pima county, the defendant. There is no serious controversy as to the facts, the real issue being as to the meaning of the words' “second standard parallel south,” as used by the legislatures of 1877, 1887, 1901 and 1913, in establishing the boundary line between Pima and Maricopa counties.

In 1877 the territorial legislature (Laws 1877, p. 12) established the boundary now in dispute in the following language:

“Thence South along said Eastern Boundary of the County of Yuma…