Boyle v. Marshall & Ilsley Bank

The question presented on this appeal is whether a court may under the terms of the trust established by Julia G. Boyle order that $6,000 be paid to the plaintiffs within the next two years. The plan of the trust is similar to that in a testamentary trust set up by the same settlor and considered in Estate of Boyle, 232 Wis. 631, 288 N. W. 257.

The sympathy which anyone who reads the record of this case must feel for the plaintiffs in the situation in which they find themselves cannot alter the operation of rules of law. The settlor of the trust had a right to dispose of her property as she…