MUCHA v. KING

No. 85-2773.

792 F.2d 602 (1986)

Jiri MUCHA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles KING, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1986.

As Amended June 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Troy, Sneider & Troy, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

John C. Brezina, Brezina & Buckingham, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.


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...

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