Stealing mineral rights

Bill Stancliff · 2012-01-29T19:35:03Z

I would like to know if anybody else has had the below described problem and if we have any protection to prevent it. A judge declared that $15 in taxes was owed on royalty on our property. That is interesting since no drilling has ever been done in the 100 years our family has owned the mineral rights and no minerals have ever been taken. The sheriff posted the tax notice in the courthouse and the mineral rights were sold at auction for $15 to a man in Midland that just happened to be on courthouse steps at the proper time. The mineral rights were sold to Exxon before anybody in my family of 20 cousins knew about it. If Exxon only used the lease that the rest of the family got they would have received $250 five years ago and $550 most recently. Talking to people in the courthouse indicates this is not the first time this has happened.

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Native_American January 30, 2012, 1:17am 3

That is disgusting.