Connecticutt General Life Insurance v. Bryson

This suit was filed by John Bryan Bryson, Jr., who will hereinafter be designated either as plaintiff or as Bryson, Jr., seeking a declaratory judgment establishing in him a remainder in fee to 5040 acres of land in Concho County and decreeing that petitioners have only a life estate in the land measured by the life of plaintiff’s father, John Bryan Bryson, Sr., who will hereinafter be referred to as Bryson, Sr. The suit turns upon the construction of a deed executed by J. H. Bryson and wife, Ellen Bryson, grandparents of Bryson, Jr., to their son, Bryson, Sr., on May 4, Í910. This deed…