Champlain Gas & Oil, LLC v. People ex rel. Commissioner of Environmental Conservation

McCarthy, J.P.

Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court (Ellis, J.), entered June 9, 2015 in Clinton County, which partially granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and denied summary judgment to defendant Lyme Adirondack Timberlands I, LLC.

In 2013, plaintiffs initiated a declaratory judgment action based on allegations that included that they were the owners of certain mineral estates to certain land located in Clinton County otherwise owned by defendant Lyme Adirondack Timberlands I, LLC (hereinafter Lyme). In 2007, Lyme had granted a conservation easement to defendant…