(April 8, 2024, 8:03 AM EDT) -- NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio — Multiple family trusts have sued hydraulic fracturing operators and other landowners in Ohio state court seeking a declaration that the trusts are the true and lawful owners of the mineral rights connected to their property and seeking damages for “false and malicious defamation” of the plaintiffs’ title to the property by one of the fracking companies, which the plaintiffs say has caused them “special pecuniary damage” and has put a “cloud” on their title to the property....