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DeWEERTH v. BALDINGER

Nos. 83,127, Docket 93-7144, 93-7146.

38 F.3d 1266 (1994)

Gerda Dorothea DeWEERTH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edith Marks BALDINGER, Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1994.

Amended Opinion Filed After Petition for Rehearing October 27, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Becker, Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly, New York City (John R. Horan, Fox & Horan, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Leslie Gordon Fagen, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for defendant-third-party-plaintiff-appellant.

Jeremy G. Epstein, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for third-party-defendant-appellant.

Before: ALTIMARI and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and OWEN, District Judge.

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is the latest episode in a decade-long dispute over the ownership of an oil painting entitled "Champs de Blé à Vétheuil" by Claude Monet. The work by the celebrated French Impressionist was previously owned by plaintiff Gerda Dorothea DeWeerth, a German citizen. It was discovered missing from DeWeerth's family castle after World War II, and was subsequently purchased by defendant...

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