In re the Estate of Riese

Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Kristin Booth Glen, S.), entered on or about September 30, 2011, which, insofar as appealed from, granted petitioner’s motion to enforce a stipulation directing respondent museum to relinquish its rights to a statue from decedent’s collection that was on loan to it from petitioner, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A negotiated stipulation between the parties contemplated the possibility of petitioner donating art from decedent’s collection to respondent museum based on a procedure by which petitioner would deliver to the museum a “Deed of Gift”…