Hacker v. Carlisle

This is a suit for declaratory judgment seeking interpretation and declaration of the legal effect of a deed executed in 1914 by Jasper Carlisle, et ux., to his son John Carlisle. Plaintiffs, the heirs of John Carlisle, also seek to quiet title in themselves as to certain mineral interests in three parcels of land-two of which were covered by the deed in issue. The trial court found the deed conveyed merely a life estate to John Carlisle with remainder to his heirs based on the following handwritten clause, viz.: "It is understood that the above party of the second part is not to sell above…