Court Opinion

ID: 4033886
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-09-15 13:10:50.847718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:47.394365
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[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as
Taylor v. Crosby, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-5820.]

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                         SLIP OPINION NO. 2016-OHIO-5820
          TAYLOR ET AL., APPELLEES, v. CROSBY ET AL., APPELLANTS.
  [Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it
     may be cited as Taylor v. Crosby, Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-5820.]
Court of appeals’ judgment affirmed on the authority of Corban v. Chesapeake
        Exploration, L.L.C., and Walker v. Shondrick-Nau, and cause remanded to
        trial court for determination regarding compliance with 2006 version of
        Dormant Mineral Act.
 (No. 2014-1886—Submitted August 31, 2016—Decided September 15, 2016.)
              APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Belmont County,
                           No. 13 BE 32, 2014-Ohio-4433.
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        {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the authority of
Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2016-Ohio-5796,
___ N.E.3d ___, and Walker v. Shondrick-Nau, ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2016-Ohio-
5793, ___ N.E.3d ___, and the cause is remanded to the trial court for a
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determination regarding compliance with the 2006 version of the Dormant Mineral
Act.
          O’CONNOR, C.J., and O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, KENNEDY, and FRENCH, JJ.,
concur.
          PFEIFER, and O’NEILL, JJ., dissent.
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          Frizzi Law Offices and Daniel L. Frizzi Jr., for appellees Benjamin F.
Taylor and Donald F. Taylor.
          Jividen Law Offices, P.L.L.C., David A. Jividen, and Chad C. Groome, for
appellee Mary Lou Hutchins.
          Myser & Davies, Richard A. Myser, and Adam L. Myser, for appellants.
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