Shumway v. Fleishman

LaPRADE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court, sitting without a jury, vacating and setting aside a tax deed executed and delivered by the county treasurer of Maricopa County. The parties will be designated as they appeared in the lower court, the appellants as plaintiffs and the appellees as defendants. Plaintiffs who had acquired title by tax deed brought suit to quiet title to a quarter section of land located in the New State Irrigation and Drainage District. In 1938 the property was advertised and sold for delinquent taxes, the major portion of which was…