Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States v. Barry Gourary, Hanna Gourary, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellant

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from a partial final judgment and order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sifton, J.), we review the district court’s rulings that granted appellee re-plevin in an action to recover books taken from its library and that dismissed appellants’ counterclaim seeking a declaration that the library was theirs by right of inheritance. The district court’s opinion is reported at 650 F.Supp. 1463 (E.D.N.Y.1987).

The precise question before us is whether the evidence before the district court was sufficient to demonstrate a…