In re: Ball, 7th Dist. Case No. 15 BE 0004, 2016-Ohio-4917. When the decedent died, an oil company had a lease to the oil-and-gas rights on decedent's property. The decedent owned the surface rights and a right to reobtain the oil-and-gas interests upon the lease's expiration. The appellate court held that the lease remained upon the farm property even though title to the farm transferred from decedent to the transfer-on-death beneficiary, decedent's granddaughter. Accordingly, the granddaughter received decedent's interest in the property subject to the oil-and-gas lease until the lease expired.
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