Waddell v. Arizona State Land Department

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

The central issue in these appeals is whether a 1985 sale of state school trust property1 is void because the constitutional and statutory limitations on the number of acres of agricultural trust property that can be sold to a single purchaser were exceeded by that sale.

The parties agree that there are no disputed issues of material fact. This court, therefore, reviews the issues in these cases as issues of law. Havasu Heights Ranch & Dev. Corp. v. State Land Dep’t, 158 Ariz. 552, 555, 764 P.2d 37, 40, amended on reconsideration, 173 Ariz. 159, 840 P.2d 1024 (App.…