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*430DISSENTING OPINION
Williamson, J.
I would sustain, the exceptions. The son has requested reimbursement for expenditures chargeable, in his view, against principal and not against income. He has not asked that principal be paid to him under the “use and benefit” clause. His claim reads in part: “that it is necessary to protect the real property * * * that * * * $596.28 * * * be expended in making permanent repairs on the buildings.”
The claim deals with investment of trust funds in the real estate and not in the destruction of the trust principal through invasion.
The testatrix had no intention that the trustee under her will could deviate from normal practice in the management of the trust estate. The propriety of expenditures, the liability of the trustee, or the trust property for charges, the apportionment of charges between income and principal, including the allocation of such charges, all are matters of trust management. They do not involve the exercise of a discretionary power to dispose of the principal by the trustee. In this instance this power has been exercised by the court below for the son surely had .no such power under the will.
If the son wishes to obtain money by invasion, and thus the destruction in part of the principal of the trust established by his mother for himself and her grandson, he should make his request in plain terms. I would treat the case as a problem in the management of a trust without considering its partial destruction through invasion.
*431State of Maine
Supreme Judicial Court
Law Term •
Portland
February, 1953
ORDER FIXING TIMES FOR BAR EXAMINATIONS
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1 of Chapter 93 of the Revised Statutes of Maine of 1944 it is
ORDERED that the Board of Examiners for the examination of applicants for admission to the Bar be and hereby are directed to hold sessions at Bangor or Orono in the County of Penobscot on the first Wednesday of February in each year and at Portland on the first Wednesday of August in each year, for the purpose of examining all applicants for admission to the bar, as to their legal learning and general qualifications to practice in the several courts of the state as attorneys and counselors at law and solicitors and counselors in chancery, and that this order supersedes any and all prior orders of this Court with respect to the holding of any sessions of said board after the date hereof.
By the Court
Harold H. Murchie

Chief Justice

February 10, 1953.
A true copy.
Attest:
Harold H. Murchie

Chief Justice