WELCH v. TARVER

No. 73-260.

507 S.W.2d 505 (1974)

Ruby Evans WELCH and Hazel Evans Parks, Appellants, v. Marolyn Moore TARVER and Carolyn Moore Honeycutt, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shackleford & Shackleford, El Dorado, for appellants.

H. Derrell Dickens, El Dorado, for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This suit for a declaratory judgment was brought by the two appellees, twin sisters, to obtain a judicial construction of a quitclaim deed by which their grandmother, Mary Etta Evans, at the age of 96, conveyed a 120-acre tract of land to her two daughters, the appellants (who are the appellees' aunts). At the time of the conveyance the grantor had a life estate in the land, coupled with a power under her husband's will to dispose of the...

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