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DYE v. CNX GAS CO., LLC

Record No. 150282.

784 S.E.2d 703 (2016)

Nella Kate Martin DYE v. CNX GAS CO., LLC, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank K. Friedman , Roanoke ( Terrence Shea Cook ; Francis H. Casola ; Roanoke, Woods Rogers, on briefs), for appellant.

Jonathan T. Blank , Charlottesville ( David Grant Altizer ; Mandy Varney French ; Tazewell, Tennille J. Checkovich ; Matthew A. Fitzgerald ; Lena L. Busscher ; Richmond, Altizer, Walk and White; McGuireWoods, on brief), for appellee CNX Gas Company, LLC.

Blair M. Gardner ( Eric D. Whitesell ; Tazewell, Gillespie, Hart, Altizer & Whitesell; Jackson Kelly , on brief), for appellee Buckhorn Coal Company, LLLP.

Amicus Curiae: Range Resources-Pine Mountain, Inc. ( Michael R. Shebelskie ; Thomas R. Waskom ; Hunton & Williams, on brief), Richmond, in support of appellees.

Amicus Curiae: Virginia Oil and Gas Association ( David W. Clarke ; Lee Adair Floyd ; Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, LLC), Richmond, in support of appellee CNX Gas Company, LLC.

Present: LEMONS, C.J., MIMS, McCLANAHAN, POWELL, and KELSEY, JJ., and RUSSELL and MILLETTE, S.JJ.

Nella Kate Martin Dye filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a determination that the term "minerals" used in two severance deeds executed in 1886 and 1887 did not effect a conveyance of the natural gas and coal bed methane (collectively "gas") underlying her land. Relying upon Warren v. Clinchfield...

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