Shumway v. State of Arizona

The question submitted for determination is: Does the assignment by the State of Arizona of its interest as mortgagee in a note and mortgage, the subsequent foreclosure by the state’s assignee of such note and mortgage and the purchase by such assignee of the real property at the sheriff’s sale extinguish the state’s lien for taxes (represented by certificates of purchase) which were levied and assessed against the real property subsequent to the date when the mortgage lien attached to said property?

This proceeding grows out of the following fact situation : On July 17, 1917, A. R. and Mamie…