Will of Porter

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 the income from the trust was to be shared among the testator’s niece and nephews for their lives, with a power of appointment in each of…