Court of Appeals of New York

In a probate proceeding, the Appellate Division's grant of a German museum's claim for return from the estate of the deceased, of a 3,000-year-old gold tablet that had gone missing at the end of World War II, is affirmed, where: 1) the Estate failed to establish the affirmative defense of laches; and 2) allowing the Estate to retain the tablet based on a spoils of war doctrine would be fundamentally unjust.

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• Decided 11/14/2013
• Published 11/14/2013

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• Court of Appeals of New York

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