Porter v. Wertz

Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered June 25, 1976, unanimously affirmed. Respondents shall recover of appellants $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal. Plaintiffs, claiming to be owners of a valuable Utrillo painting, have sued to recover possession or the value thereof from various defendants, through and to some of whom the painting passed after having been delivered to one Wertz, believed by plaintiffs to be a collector, but who sold it to one of the Feigen defendants without plaintiffs’ permission, and then disappeared. The arrangement with the bogus "collector” is said to…