PORTER v. WERTZ


68 A.D.2d 141 (1979)

Samuel Porter et al., Appellants, v. Peter Wertz et al., Individually and Trading Under the Name of Irvin Brenner Gallery, et al., Defendants, and Richard Feigen Gallery, Inc., et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 10, 1979


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Weitzman of counsel (A. Harry Kupersmith, attorney), for appellants.

George Popkin for respondents.

KUPFERMAN, J. P., LANE and SILVERMAN, JJ., concur.


BIRNS, J.

Plaintiffs-appellants, Samuel Porter and Express Packaging, Inc. (Porter's corporation), owners of a Maurice Utrillo painting entitled "Chateau de Lion-sur-Mer", seek in this action to recover possession of the painting or the value thereof from defendants, participants in a series of transactions which resulted in the shipment of the painting out of the country. The painting is now in Venezuela.

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