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VAN SLOOTEN v. LARSEN

Docket Nos. 62256, 61917. (Calendar Nos. 7, 8).

410 Mich. 21 (1980)

299 N.W.2d 704

VAN SLOOTEN v. LARSEN BICKEL v. FAIRCHILD

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson, Zirnhelt & Bowron (by Peter J. Zirnhelt and John Michael Senger) for plaintiff Van Slooten.

Denfield, Timmer & Taylor for plaintiffs Bickel, Getty Oil Company, Skelly Oil Company, Total Leonard, Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, and Saxon Oil Company.

Dreyer & DuBois (by James D. Dreyer and Michael K. Cooper) for defendants Larsen, Armstrong, and other heirs of Nellie F. Gill.

Monaghan, Campbell, LoPrete, McDonald & Norris for defendants Worth and Shell Oil Company.

COLEMAN, C.J.

The issue in these cases is the constitutionality of the dormant mineral act, MCL 554.291 et seq.; MSA 26.1163(1) et seq.,1 as applied to these oil and gas interests created prior to the passage of the act in 1963. In Bickel v Fairchild, 83 Mich.App. 467; 268 N.W.2d 881 (1978), the...

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