Eytan v. Bach

REILLY, Chief Judge, Retired:

This is an appeal from a judgment in the Small Claims Court 1 dismissing an action to recover $157.50 — the total sales price of three paintings paid to a Georgetown retailer of antiques and miscellaneous secondhand furniture by appellants (a married couple). Their basic contention was that they had bought these paintings because the vendor had represented them to be the original productions of some 19th Century artist (or artists), notwithstanding the fact that these were merely copies (as the purchasers subsequently discovered) processed and placed in frames to…