Ralston's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Testator, Gustavus C. Ralston, gave his residuary-estate equally to the Masonic Home, located at Elizabethtown, and the Odd Fellows Orphans’ Home, situated at Orphanage near Sunbury, to which institutions the orphans’ court awarded the bequests.

This appeal is by Anna S. Smiley, a daughter of the decedent, who asserts that Fred 0. Miller, one of the subscribing witnesses to the will, was not a disinterested witness owing to the fact that at the time he attested the document he was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The…