Case Name: SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a national banking association, and Robert John Corcoran, Co-Trustees pursuant to the Last Will and Testament of Minnie M. Ross, Deceased, Marion Porter Grace, a widow, Helen Grace Gaty, M. L. Grace, Frances Grace Rogers, Leslie J. Mahoney and Olga M. Mahoney, his wife, and Pierce Farms, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Petitioners, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION of the State of Arizona, a body politic and corporate, and Warren Peterson, Joe Hunt and Thad M. Moore, as members of and constituting said State Tax Commission of the State of Arizona, Respondents
Court: Arizona Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arizona
Decision Date: 1950-01-03
Citations: 69 Ariz. 293
Docket Number: No. 5295
Parties: SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a national banking association, and Robert John Corcoran, Co-Trustees pursuant to the Last Will and Testament of Minnie M. Ross, Deceased, Marion Porter Grace, a widow, Helen Grace Gaty, M. L. Grace, Frances Grace Rogers, Leslie J. Mahoney and Olga M. Mahoney, his wife, and Pierce Farms, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Petitioners, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION of the State of Arizona, a body politic and corporate, and Warren Peterson, Joe Hunt and Thad M. Moore, as members of and constituting said State Tax Commission of the State of Arizona, Respondents.
Judges: Chief Justice LaPRADE and Justice DeCONCINI having announced their disqualification, Honorable DUDLEY W. WINDES and FRANK E. THOMAS, Judges of the Superior Court, were called to sit in their stead.
Reporter: Arizona Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 293–294

Head Matter:
213 P.2d 367
SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a national banking association, and Robert John Corcoran, Co-Trustees pursuant to the Last Will and Testament of Minnie M. Ross, Deceased, Marion Porter Grace, a widow, Helen Grace Gaty, M. L. Grace, Frances Grace Rogers, Leslie J. Mahoney and Olga M. Mahoney, his wife, and Pierce Farms, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Petitioners, v. STATE TAX COMMISSION of the State of Arizona, a body politic and corporate, and Warren Peterson, Joe Hunt and Thad M. Moore, as members of and constituting said State Tax Commission of the State of Arizona, Respondents.
No. 5295.
Supreme Court of Arizona.
Jan. 3, 1950.
Armstrong & Spector of Phoenix, for petitioners.
Fred O. Wilson, Attorney General, Lorna E. Lockwood and Edward Jacobson, Assistants Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petitioners in the instant case are all landlords who are the owners of certain storerooms rented for mercantile purposes. This original proceeding in prohibition was instituted to prevent the State Tax Commission of Arizona from subjecting petitioners, and all other persons similarly situated, to the provisions of the "Excise Revenue Act of 1935", as amended, A.C.A. 1939, § 73-1301 et seq.
The facts and principles of law applicable to this case are analogous to those involved in the companion case of Alvord et al. v. State Tax Commission, 69 Ariz. 287, 213 P.2d 363. The two cases were consolidated for the purpose of briefing and oral argument. For the reasons therein set forth the alternative writ of prohibition heretofore issued in the instant case is made permanent.
Chief Justice LaPRADE and Justice DeCONCINI having announced their disqualification, Honorable DUDLEY W. WINDES and FRANK E. THOMAS, Judges of the Superior Court, were called to sit in their stead.