Farmers Investment Co. V. Arizona State Land Department

This is an appeal by defendants-appellants Arizona State Land Department and Joe Fallini as State Land Commissioner (Department) and Cyprus Pima Mining Company (Cyprus Pima) from the order of the trial court which granted summary judgment to plaintiff-appellee Farmers Investment Company (FICO). The trial court granted FICO's request for a declaratory judgment that a public auction sale of groundwater from state land was void because the Department could not impose as a condition of the sale that the purchaser of the groundwater reimburse the Department for improvements which had been made to the overlying land.