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SHORT v. TEXACO, INC.

Nos. 179S23 and 1278S303.

406 N.E.2d 625 (1980)

Louise F. SHORT, Appellant, v. TEXACO, INC., Robert Braselton, Electra Fields, Charles Braselton, Chester Braselton, Robert E. Braselton, Clifford N. Braselton, Osborne T. Braselton, Jr., David E. Burkhart, John P. Braselton, Rosa G. Burkhart, D.W. Mayhew d/b/a Mayhew Oil and Gas Development, DeBeers Diamond Investment, Ltd., Appellees, State of Indiana, Intervenor. Ulysses G. Walden, Jr. and Carolyn Sallee Walden, Appellants, v. Eden H. Pond, Edna H. Bobe and Consolidation Coal Company, Appellees, Louise F. Short, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verner P. Partenheimer, Jr., Princeton, for appellant Short.

Charles R. Nixon, Princeton, for appellants Walden.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for amicus curiae.

John L. Carroll, Russell T. Woodson, Evansville, for appellees Texaco, Inc. et al.

James M. Buthod, Mark W. Rietman, Evansville, for appellees Pond et al.

DeBRULER, Justice.

The trial court declared Ind. Code §§ 32-5-11-1 through 32-5-11-8, the Mineral Lapse Act, unconstitutional. The Act puts an end to interests in coal, oil, gas or other minerals which have not been used for twenty years. The "use" of a mineral interest which continues it in force includes actual production, payment of rents, royalties or taxes, or the filing of a claim in the dormant mineral interest record in the recorder's office. It...

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