Reed v. Enright

BATEMAN, Justice.

This case involves conflicting claims of ownership of a certain oil painting alleged to have been painted by Michael Angelo Amerigio Caravaggio in approximately 1603, entitled “The Entombment of Christ.” * After a jury verdict on special issues the trial court entered a judgment disregarding three of the jury’s findings and awarding the appellant George S. Reed an undivided 50 per cent interest in the painting, the remaining 50 per cent being distributed among the opposing claimants and their attorneys in the proportions they had agreed upon among themselves during the trial.…