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WILL OF WRIGHT

12 Wis.2d 375 (1961)

WILL OF WRIGHT: STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHIPEWA FALLS, TRUSTEE, Respondent: AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

January 10, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by Frank P. Fosgate, collection and, deportation counsel, and Charles C. Lubcke and Clarence Simon, assistant counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Simon.

For the respondent there was a brief by Stafford, Pfiffner & Stafford of Chippewa Falls, and oral argument by Richard H. Stafford.

BROWN, J.

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...

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