Princess Plaza Partners v. State

OPINION

MICHAEL D. RYAN, Judge.

The Arizona State Land Department (“the department”) appeals from rulings made by the trial court in a lawsuit concerning a sixty-five-year lease of a 6.72 acre parcel of the state’s school trust land 1 by Princess Plaza Partners (“PPP”). The superior court ruled on summary judgment that the lease, executed six years earlier, had not been made in substantial conformity with the provision of the Enabling Act requiring appraisal of the leasehold and, therefore, that the lease was void ab initio.

The trial court also determined that the parties should be returned to…