Pretzer v. Lassen

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Superior Court of Pinal County, Arizona wherein that court dismissed an appeal from a decision of the Arizona State Land Commissioner.

The facts are that David Pretzer, appellant here, has been farming 27 acres of land adjacent to his patented land since approximately 1953. The only problem with this operation was that the land being farmed was the subject of a grazing lease held by La Osa Livestock Company, one of appellees here.

In 1964, the State Land Department notified La Osa Livestock Company, hereinafter referred to as La Osa, that the land was…