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WILSON v. HAMMER HOLDINGS, INC.

Nos. 87-1960, 87-1961.

850 F.2d 3 (1988)

Dorothy Ann WILSON, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. HAMMER HOLDINGS, INC., Defendant, Appellee. Dorothy Ann WILSON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. HAMMER HOLDINGS, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Shields with whom Cindy A. O'Connor and Day, Berry & Howard, Boston, Mass., were on brief for plaintiffs, appellants.

Darragh K. Kasakoff with whom Seder & Chandler, Worcester, Mass., was on brief for defendant, appellee.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1961, appellant Dorothy Wilson and her late husband, John, paid more than $11,000 to the Hammer Galleries for a painting that was expressly guaranteed to be an original work of art by Edouard Vuillard. In 1984, an expert deemed the painting a fake. The district court held that the Wilsons' suit for breach of warranty and negligence, filed in February 1987, was barred by the statute of limitations. We affirm.

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