Smith v. Zimbalist

From the “findings of fact” made pursuant to the trial of the action, it appears that plaintiff, who was of the age of eighty-six years, although not a dealer in violins, had been a collector of rare violins for many years; “that defendant was a violinist of great prominence, internationally known, and himself the owner and collector of rare and old violins made by the old masters”; that at the suggestion of a third person, and without the knowledge by plaintiff of defendant’s intention in the matter, defendant visited plaintiff at the home of the latter and there asked plaintiff if he might…