Opinion ID: 4033892
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Heading: The Batmans’ Mineral Interest

Text: {¶ 5} In 1952, Mayme Sulsberger died and left her interest in the mineral rights underlying the properties at issue in this case to her daughter, Frances Batman (“Frances”). On September 9, 1981, Frances executed an “Affidavit and Notice of Claim of Interest in Land” that referenced mineral interests that she held in properties in Belmont County, Ohio, and she recorded the affidavit in the office of the Belmont County Recorder that same month. Shortly thereafter, Frances died, and pursuant to the terms of her will, her mineral interests in the Belmont County properties passed to her son, Nile Batman. {¶ 6} In 1989, almost eight years after her death, Frances’s will was filed in both the Belmont County Probate Court and the Belmont County Recorder’s Office.