Legal Opinion
Jiri Mucha v. Charles King
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 23, 1986No. 85-2773PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This suit raises interesting legal questions, mainly of the common law of bailments, set against an exotic factual background involving the international art trade. The dispute is over ownership of a painting that, having been given away seven years ago, may today be worth several hundred thousand dollars. The extraordinary if irrelevant coincidence that this is the second case in little more than a year to confront the same three judges of this court with a dispute rooted in the movement known as Art Nouveau should not go unremarked. See Piarowski v. Illinois Community…
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