Legal Opinion
Menzel v. List
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 26, 1969PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBurke, J.
In 1932 Mrs. Erna Menzel and her husband pur- ¡V chased a painting by Marc Chagall at an auction in Brussels, j Belgium, for 3,800 Belgian francs (then equivalent to about $150). When the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940, the Men-, zels fled and left their possessions, including the Chagall painting, in their apartment. They returned six years later and found that the painting had been removed by the German authorities and that a receipt for the painting had been left. The location of the painting between the time of its removal by the Germans in 1941 and 1955 is unknown. In 1955 Klaus Peris)…
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