In Headley v. Ackerman, 2017-Ohio-8030 (7th Dist.), the Court of Appeals for the Seventh District of Ohio affirmed a decision by the Common Pleas Court of Monroe County, Ohio, holding that an exception and reservation of "one-half oil, and gas and gasoline royalty" in a 1923 sheriffs deed was an exception, not a reservation, and therefore did not need words of inheritance to create a fee simple estate. The Headley case involved property located in Monroe County that was inherited in equal shares by nine siblings (Christman Heirs), eight of whom conveyed their interests in the property to the ninth sibling, L.E. Christman, in a quitclaim deed dated April 4, 1922 (First Quitclaim Deed), that contained the following exception: Exceptin [sic] and reserving however from the operation of this deed the one half of the oil and gas royalty in our respective interest in said premises, being the one sixteenth of the oil produced and the one half of gas royalty reserved in any lease now on said premises or that may hereafter made thereon, for the period of twenty years from this date.
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