KAINER v. UBS AG

9182. 650026/13.

175 A.D.3d 403 (2019)

106 N.Y.S.3d 309

2019 NY Slip Op 06053

Estate of Margaret Kainer et al., Appellants, v. UBS AG et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided August 6, 2019.


This action involves a dispute among purported heirs to Margaret Kainer's estate over ownership rights to a Degas painting, "Danseuses," which Nazis illegally confiscated from Kainer, who died without a will or children in 1968, and which, many years later, was sold in New York at a Christie's auction. Plaintiffs consist of Kainer's estate and 11 heirs to the estate, according to French certificates of inheritance identifying them as such.

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