(December 21, 2023, 12:55 PM EST) -- WOODSFIELD, Ohio — An Ohio appellate panel has affirmed a trial court’s ruling that an assignment of royalties from 1898 related to mineral rights interests conveyed a fixed, fractional 1/16 royalty interest to a mineral rights holding company’s predecessors-in-interest, therefore, the company’s claim that it had an interest in 1/2 of the lease royalty had “no merit.”...