United States v. Edward M. Claridge and Kay T. Claridge, His Wife and State of Arizona Ex Rel. Obed M. Lassen

This action was instituted by the United States to quiet title to lands located on the Arizona side of the Colorado River in the Palo Verde Valley. Judgment of the District Court was rendered in favor of the United States. 279 F.Supp. 87 (D.Ariz.1967). From that judgment the defendants and the State of Arizona, as intervenor, have appealed. They assert that the lands in question are not in the public domain but that title thereto passed to the State of Arizona upon its becoming a state in 1912. They contend that at that time the lands were in the bed of the Colorado River 1 and remained there…