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STANFIELD v. VOLLBEHR

No. 5464.

60 F.2d 670 (1932)

STANFIELD et al. v. VOLLBEHR.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided May 16, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Levi Cooke, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Paul E. Lesh, of Washington, D. C., and Alfred K. Nippert, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, and GRONER, Associate Justices.

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. Appellee 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...

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