Lyons v. Wisconsin Valley Trust Co.

The written agreement entered into between the claimant, Mrs. Lyons, and Gordon, the life beneficiary of the spendthrift trust, dated November 9, 1950, wherein Gordon agreed to pay claimant $50 per week for her services, is of no legal significance under the decision of this court in Will of Razall (1943), 243 Wis. 152, 9 N. W. (2d) 639.

Claimant in the Razall Case sought to recover from the trustee of a spendthrift trust for necessary legal services supplied to the life beneficiary and this court in its opinion stated (p. 154) :

“It is also clear, however, that the beneficiary cannot go out…