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Case Summary
Brown University v. Kaminski
Brown University v. Kaminski, No. 92-cv-4290 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1994).
Précis
This case centers on Brown University’s action for
replevin
A legal action in which an original owner seeks to recover possession of property wrongfully taken or retained by another party.
replevin, seeking the return of a Civil War presentation sword and scabbard, that was donated to the University in 1907 but later found to be missing and in the possession of Kaminski, who was offering it for sale at auction on behalf of Carol Landers, the executrix of her late brother’s estate. The court found that . . . .
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