OH Supreme Court Case Allows Surface Owners to Keep Mineral Rights

Yesterday, the Ohio Supreme Court issued a ruling dismissing a case that leaves in place a ruling from the Seventh District Court of Appeals. The case, Darrell Crozier et al. v. Pipe Creek Conservancy LLC et al., involves a decision on who owns the oil and gas rights underlying a property in rural Belmont County. The case revolves around the Ohio Marketable Title Act (MTA), something we've written about multiple times (see our MTA stories here). The issue of who owns the mineral rights is vitally important for surface owners, rights owners, and drillers. The MTA provides a way for surface owners to reclaim subsurface rights that had been severed under certain conditions. That's what this case was about.

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