Richard J. Bond and Janet A. Bond v. Templeton Coal Company, Inc.

OPINION

NAJAM, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Richard J. Bond and Janet A. Bond 1 (“the Bonds”) appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for Templeton Coal Company, Inc. (“Templeton”) on Temple-ton’s complaint to quiet title to certain mineral interests. The Bonds present a single issue for our review, which we restate as whether Templeton’s use of the mineral interests from 1964 to the present, following a thirty-five-year period of non-use, precludes lapse of those interests under the Indiana Mineral Lapse Act, Indiana Code Sections 32-23-10-1 to -8 (“the Act”). 2 We affirm the trial…