Steinfeld v. State

This is an appeal-from a judgment of the superior court of Pima county holding that a mortgage in favor of the state of Arizona was a lien on certain land superior to a tax title to the same property held by Harold Steinfeld and Margaret Steinfeld; his wife, hereinafter called appellants. The facts are not in dispute, and the only question for us to determine is as to the proper application of the law to those facts.

For some time prior to 1919 Rudolph Bachman and his wife were the owners of certain land in section 31, Tp. 19 S., R. 13 E.,- situated in Pima county, and certain other land in…