Williams v. Mid-Ohio Coal Co.

Citations

• 2026 Ohio 1245

Syllabus

An indexing error in the county recorder's office in 1891 caused a break in the chain of title for certain underground-mineral rights and spawned a legal dispute over ownership of those rights. The dispute is resolved under the claim-preclusion doctrine in favor of property owners whose predecessors in interest had filed a quiet-title action in 1954 and, relying on the erroneous index, had served the complaint on the 1891 owner of the mineral rights.