COMBEN v. STATE

Docket Nos. 127212 & (50)(53). COA No. 248963.

705 N.W.2d 109 (2005)

474 Mich. 893

Sherry COMBEN, Antrim County Treasurer, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Michigan, and Department of Treasury, Defendants-Appellants, and Pure Resources, L.P., Dominion Reserves, Inc., Wolverine Gas and Oil Company, Inc., Eugenie R. Anderson, Stephen Ward Devine, Elizabeth Palmer Devine, Michael Edmund Devine, Suzanne Lee Devine, William W. Dunn, David W. Fay, Edwin R. Fay, Peter W. Fay, Robert A. Fay, Rosamond S. Fisher, Frederick T. Golding, Nancy Hamilton, Lisa Marriott Jones, Daphne Fay Landry, George S. Leisure, Jr., Peter R. Leisure, Flora Ninelles, Marjorie S. Richardson, James W. Riley, Jr., William A. Riley, Barbara F. Rosenberg, Elizabeth R.P. Shaw, Ann Ward Spaeth, Frederick S. Strong, III, A.W. Robert, Strong Revocable Trust, and Eugenie S. Kauffman, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

October 27, 2005.


By order of May 27, 2005, the parties were directed to file supplemental briefs. On order of the Court, the briefs having been filed, the application for leave to appeal the August 31, 2004 judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is GRANTED. The parties are directed to include among the issues briefed: (1) whether the state defendants have standing to prosecute this appeal, and (2) whether a lessee of mineral rights who has leased the rights from the surface...

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