Lurie v. Blackwell

VOIGT, Justice.

[¶ 1] In 1978, Ronald U. Lurie and Nancy Lurie, husband and wife, of St. Louis, Missouri, purchased a bronze sculpture from a Missouri art dealer. At some point, the Lu-ries sent the sculpture to a Cody, Wyoming, studio “to be sold,” and the Luries later moved to Montana. In 2001, Robert Blackwell, a Missouri bankruptcy trustee, sought to execute his Missouri bankruptcy judgment against the sculpture in Wyoming, the judgment having been entered only against Ronald U. Lurie. Nancy Lurie sought to quash the execution, claiming that title to the sculpture was held as a tenancy by…