Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., Et Al.

Pfeifer, J.,

dissenting from the answer to the first certified question and concurring in the answer to the second certified question.

{¶ 107} The federal court certified two questions to this court. I dissent from the majority’s response to the first question. I would hold that the 1989 version of R.C. 5301.56 applies to quiet-title actions filed after 2006 in which the surface owner alleges that mineral rights automatically vested in the surface owner as a result of abandonment prior to the effective date of the 2006 amendments to R.C. 5301.56. I concur in the majority’s response to the…