Reinhold

Murray Schloss died June 28, 1927. His will was probated in Riverside County. By the decree distribution entered May 4,1931, and incorporating the terms of the will, testator’s property was given to ten named individuals, “their survivors and successors, in Trust and as Trustee of the Murray Schloss Foundation for Hothan Pioneering” to be “held and administered, as a perpetual charitable fund in trust” and the “income” to be paid to “such charitable use connected with [the] Heart-o-the-Hills/ as may in their judgment, be most worthy and [have a] tendency to promote or improve the all-sided progress of mankind, particularly among those people who are in accord with the teachings of the Temple or Church op the Dawn.”

Fred S. Reinhold, Otto Witchner, and Walter Gould Lincoln were among the original ten trustees. Following distribution of the trust estate, the trustees held meetings, by-laws were adopted, and Lincoln was designated the attorney for the trust. M. W. Beale (who later proved to be Lincoln’s wife) was appointed a trustee when a vacancy subsequently occurred. The issues now before this court arose out of the following sequence of events:

On September 1, 1959, M. W. Beale…