On January 3, 2018 the Ohio Supreme Court, in Alford v. Collins-McGregor Operating Company, 2018-Ohio-8, again supported oil and gas well developers and pounded one more nail in the landowner’s coffin.
Read MoreOn September 15, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court in Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration L.L.C., 2016-Ohio-5796 ruled that the 1989 version of the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act (“DMA”) did not operate automatically to allow severed oil, gas and mineral rights to be deemed abandoned and vested in a surface owner.
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