Legal Opinion · Concurrence

First Wisconsin Trust Co. v. Perkins

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided April 9, 1957Published

1Concurrence

*471Currie, J.

{concurring). The trust instrument does expressly provide for one exception from the requirements of ch. 320, Stats., that investments must be made in “legáis” in the absence of provisions in the instrument conferring wider investment powers. This is the provision in paragraph 4 which authorizes the trustee to retain as trust investments “the assets and securities now comprised in said trust . . . whether or not the same conformed to the rules prescribed by the laws of Wisconsin for the investment of trust funds/1

While the rule of construction of “expressio unius est exclusio…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Equitable Trust Co. v. SnaderCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1934

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