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Who Owns the Void? Oral Arguments at SCOTX Regarding Underground Storage Rights

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The deed severed the mineral estate from the surface estate, with Myers-Woodward LLC (“Myers”) now owning the surface estate and a 1/8th non-participating royalty interest in minerals. 2017), where the Court emphasized that “the surface owner owns and controls the mass of earth undergirding the surface.”

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