PRINCESS SUES IN VAIN
CONFISCATIONS BY SOVIET (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. In Princess Paley’s claim judgment was given for the defendants with costs, Mr. Justice Maekinnon holding that the princess was one of those unfortunates who strayed from the confines of the Soviet Republic and therefore came within the meaning of the decree by which their property passed from them. Princess Paley, widow of the Russian Grand Duke Alexandrovitch, contested the right of the Soviet to confiscate or dispose of her property, in a King's Bench, action against a firm of French dealers, whose defence set out that the furniture, tapestries, carpets and pictures at present in England had legally been appropriated by the Soviet in 1918 and subsequently purchased by the defendants. The princess’s counsel stated that the property undoubtedly belonged to the princess, and came from her home m Russii After the revolution her husband was imprisoned and eventually shot in 1919. The princess left Russia soon afterwards. . . „ , Cross-examined, the princess agreed that her husband did not give her any document showing that the property in Russia belonged to her.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 9
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