Alberts v. McGirk

-This is an appeal by the state land commissioner and the state land department, hereinafter called defendants, from a judgment of the superior court of Maricopa county granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding them to issue certificates of purchase for certain lands owned by the state of Arizona, in favor of W. H. McGirk, Ella E. McGirk, Ora A. McGirk, and Gordon B. McGirk, hereinafter called plaintiffs. The Seventy-Sis Cattle Company, a corporation, hereinafter called intervener, intervened in the trial court and has joined in the appeal.

The action arose out of the following state…