Moeur v. Chiricahua Ranches Co.

This is an appeal by B. B. Moeur, James H. Kerby, John L. Sullivan, Mit Simms and Ana Frohmiller, composing the state land department of Arizona, and Charles P. Mullen, state land commissioner, from a judgment granting a writ of prohibition directing them to refrain from canceling certain state land leases which the department had theretofore issued to the Chiricahua Eanches Company and from awarding leases covering the same lands to other persons.

There is no dispute as to the facts. It is admitted that they are correctly alleged in the petition for the writ and, so far as necessary to a…