Arizona Supreme Court won’t sit on squatter case

Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 8.20.38 AMBy Richard Ruelas | The Republic

Arizona’s highest court refused this week to hear the case of a Tempe man who has been ordered off a piece of state land where he says his family has maintained a home for more than 100 years.

That means the state can claim an undisputed title to the land, near Tempe Town Lake, just west of downtown Tempe, where Steve Sussex says his family has lived since the 1890s.

Sussex’s great-grandfather purchased an adobe house and tended hogs and crops on the surrounding land. The adobe house, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands on the southwest corner of the property at First Street and Farmer Avenue.

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