State ex rel. Claugus Family Farm, L.P. v. Seventh Dist. Court of Appeals (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} These consolidated actions, an original action in this court and an appeal of a judgment of the Seventh District Court of Appeals, address the interpretation of a number of nearly identical oil and gas leases. The appeal challenges the Seventh District’s interpretation of the leases in a class action. The original action seeks writs of prohibition and mandamus. In the original action, relator, Claugus Family Farm, L.P. (“Claugus Family”), an absent and unnamed plaintiff in the class action, challenges the Seventh District’s order tolling the leases in the class action.

{¶ 2} We affirm…