State Department of Public Welfare v. First National Bank of Chippewa Falls

The department concedes that Samuel C. Wright in his lifetime and his estate thereafter were not liable, apart from the terms of the trust, for Alfred Wright’s support in the county hospital but the department says that the will set up the trust solely to supply Alfred’s comforts and necessities; his maintenance in the hospital is a comfort and a necessity to him; therefore the application of the trust fund to the expense of Alfred’s maintenance there carries out the purpose of the trust.

*379A reading of the trust clauses of the will must convince the reader that the fund is not to be spent for…