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KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN zu WEIMAR v. ELICOFON

Nos. 748-749, Dockets 72-2305-2306.

478 F.2d 231 (1973)

KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN zu WEIMAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward I. ELICOFON, Defendant-Appellee. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward I. ELICOFON, Defendant-Appellee, Elisabeth Mathilde Isidore Erbgrossherzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar), Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry I. Rand, New York City (Lawrence M. Kaye, Botein, Hays, Sklar & Herzberg, New York City, on the brief), for proposed plaintiff-intervenor-appellant.

Richard W. Hulbert, New York City (Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Elicofon.

Albert D. Jordan, New York City (Elliot Paskoff, Horst Kurnik and Valicenti, Leighton, Reid & Pine, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Federal Republic of Germany.

Herbert Strong, New York City, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee Duchess of Saxony-Weimar.

Before BREITENSTEIN, KAUFMAN and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

On January 27, 1969, the Federal Republic of Germany brought suit in the district court for the Eastern District of New York against Edward Elicofon, a New York resident, to recover two valuable paintings by the renowned artist Albrecht Duerer, alleged to have been stolen in 1945 from Schwartzburg Castle in Germany during the American Occupation. The Federal Republic asserts that the paintings, executed in the...

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