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WILL OF PORTER

301 Pa.Super. 299 (1982)

447 A.2d 977

Trust Under the WILL OF Harry T. PORTER, Deceased. Appeal of R. Porter SMITH.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed July 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Freedman, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Alfred J. Tagliaferri, Philadelphia, for The Right Worshipful Grand Lodge, et al., participating party.

Lawrence Barth, Deputy Attorney General, Philadelphia, for Commonwealth, participating party.

Mary Gleeson Lawler, Philadelphia, for Provident Nat. Bank, participating party.

Before CAVANAUGH, JOHNSON and MONTEMURO, JJ.

JOHNSON, Judge:

This is an appeal from the award by the lower court of a fund of two hundred thousand dollars to The Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania [hereinafter Grand Lodge] under the will of Harry T. Porter [hereinafter testator].

Testator died in 1929. In his will, executed in 1925, he created a trust for his wife as life beneficiary. After her death, certain gifts were to be made to charities from the trust and...

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