Legal Opinion
Harrison-Wyatt, LLC v. Ratliff
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 5, 2004No. Record 030634PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SENIOR JUSTICE STEPHENSON
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal presents a significant question of first impression in Virginia, to-wit: Where a surface owner of a tract of land, or his predecessor-in-title, has conveyed all the coal in and under his land, has title to the coal bed methane (CBM) passed to the coal owner along with the coal?
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Harrison-Wyatt, LLC (the Coal Owner), is the successor grantee under three coal severance deeds from the 19th century. Donald Ratliff and others (the Plaintiffs) own the surface land and all minerals upon and within it, except the coal. The…
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