Stanfield v. Vollbehr

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Appellee, who is a citizen of Germany, brought to the United States in 1926 a^collection of approximately 3,000 incunabula (books printed before A. D. 1500) and exhibited them at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago and thereafter at various exhibitions during the years 1926, 1927, and 1928. Ap-pellee valued his collection at $3,000,000, but offered to sell it to the United States for $1,500,000. At the same time he made various efforts to dispose of it to institutions of learning, but failed to secure a purchaser. In 1929 he resolved to return to Europe, but about…