Clifton G. Valentine v. Sugar Rock, Inc. and Gerald D. and Teresa D. Hall

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an oil and gas lease is a mineral interest, that the lessee is the owner of the mineral interest during the term of the lease, and that oil and gas leases are a form of real property protectable by law
• Fourth Circuit certified question to this Court where “federal district court and the state circuit court had applied similar precepts of West Virginia law to the identical Ritchie County properties, and yet had reached manifestly irreconcilable outcomes.”
• “Under the Act, a partnership is an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit, whether or not the persons intend to form a partnership. W. Va. Code §§ 47B-1-1(7) [2003] & 47B-2-2(a) [1995].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).