Legal Opinion
Kunstsammlungen Zu Weimar v. Elicofon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 5, 1982No. Nos. 446, 535, Dockets 81-7542, 81-7544PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
In this diversity suit involving two foreign countries (East Germany and West Germany), a foreign national, and an American citizen, we are asked to determine the ownership of two priceless Albrecht Duerer portraits executed around 1499.1 They were stolen in 1945 from a castle located in what is now East Germany and fortuitously discovered in 1966 in the Brooklyn home of Edward I. Elicofon, an American citizen, where they had been openly displayed by him to friends since his good-faith purchase *1153of them over 20 years earlier without knowledge that they were Duerers.…
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