Hager v. Stakes’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 139 state decisions

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1. ““If you answer question No. 3 in the affirmative, then against whom is such interest taxable (a) when the royalty interest is retained and owned by the original lessor and used and enjoyed by him in connection with his surface rights and as an incident of the ownership of the fee in the land; (b) when the original lessor has sold his royalty interest in his land and it is owned by parties other than himself and the lessee and his assigns' — that is to say, when the surface rights and the fee in the land subject to the lease is owned by A, the interest in and under the lease is owned by the lessee, B, or his assigns, and the royalty interest is owned separately by a third person, C ? In further explanation of this case, we state that it appears from appellants’ petition that they own the fee and royalty in certain of the lands within the terms of subdivision (a) of this question, and that in the other lands they own only a royalty interest within the meaning of subdivision (b) of this question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Green v. Baldwin