Dorothy Ann Wilson, Etc. v. Hammer Holdings, Inc., Dorothy Ann Wilson v. Hammer Holdings, Inc.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1961, appellant Dorothy Wilson and her late husband, John, paid more than $11,000 to the Hammer Galleries for a painting that was expressly guaranteed to be an original work of art by Edouard Vuillard. In 1984, an expert deemed the painting a fake. The district court held that the Wilsons’ suit for breach of warranty and negligence, filed in February 1987, was barred by the statute of limitations. We affirm.

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When Dorothy and John Wilson purchased the painting entitled “Femme Deb-out” from the Hammer Galleries in 1961, 1 they were assured in writing that “[t]he…