Maddox v. Keeler

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming. .

The action was instituted under the Declaratory Judgment Act, Civil Code of Practice, Sections 639a — 1 to 639a — 12 inclusive, seeking a declaration of rights between the parties under a deed from their father and mother, R. H. Hoskins and Mary F. Hoskins, dated September 28, 1895, conveying a tract of land in Jefferson County to William Wheeler, who in turn devised the land to appellee upon his death, on April 25, 1936. The deed from Hoskins to Wheeler conveyed a fee simple title to the property in question, subject to the following…