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Case Summary
Cassirer & Bennigson v. Hahn
Cassirer v. Hahn, No. 1158698 (Cal. Super. Ct. July 15, 2005).
Précis
Claude Cassirer and Thomas Bennigson filed "an action for
constructive trust
When a person has title to property or takes possession of it under circumstances in which he is holding it for another, even though there is no formal trust document or agreement. The court may determine that the holder of the title holds it as constructive trustee for the benefit of the intended owner. This may occur through fraud, breach of faith, ignorance or inadvertence (http://dictionary.law.com).
constructive trust" against Stephen Hahn, a retired art dealer, in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Barbara in 2004. Cassirer and Bennigson alleged that Hahn sold a Pissarro and a Picasso that had belonged to their respective families before being wrongfully taken during World War II . . .
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