Opinion No.

The Honorable John E. Miller State Representative Post Office Box 436 Melbourne, AR 72556

Dear Representative Miller:

This is in response to your request for an opinion concerning a dispute over who is entitled to receive royalty payments for a certain lease of mineral interests. Specifically, you note that a particular family owns eighty acres of land along a river. They, for some unspecified number of years, leased the mineral rights to this land, and received royalty payments on the entire eighty acres. At some additional unspecified time, the river which bordered the property changed its…