Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. v. Buell (Slip Opinion)

Kennedy, J.,

concurring in the answers to the certified questions and concurring in the opinion in part.

{¶ 93} Respectfully, while I concur with the answers to both questions, I concur with the analysis only in part. With regard to the second certified question, I agree that the expiration of an unrecorded oil and gas lease and the *513reversion to the lessor is not a title transaction under R.C. 5301.56(B)(3)(a) of the Ohio Dormant Minerals Act (“ODMA”).

{¶ 94} As to the first certified question — whether a recorded oil and gas lease is a “title transaction” under the ODMA — I agree with the…