Moore v. Missouri State Life Insurance

This is an appeal by Harry M. Moore, as treasurer of Maricopa county, Arizona, from a judgment of the superior court of that county commanding him to accept the taxes upon certain real estate tendered him by Missouri State Life Insurance Company, a corporation, hereinafter called plaintiff. There is no dispute as to the facts, and the only question before us is one of law.

Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: On November 1, 1929, Lazelle E. Wood and Ethel R. Wood, his wife, executed in favor of plaintiff a mortgage on the lands described in the complaint, being then the owners thereof.…