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In the 40s of the XX century, two lawyers from Manhattan owned the building in Carroll Gardens. But the trouble was that they had outstanding mortgage payments for the condo at 541 Clinton Street. Julius Freilicher and Martin Auslander had to pay the Bank 3 $ 300.
Enterprising lawyers thought to pay the mortgage is not in their interest. They decided to get rid of the building, and not invented anything better, how to re-gift it to someone, according to the Brownstone Detectives. The Bank would in any case have withdrawn their building for debt, so finally, these two gentlemen decided to have some fun: the deed they were designed to… Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
The fact that the transfer of the mortgaged property for a gift to someone — the course of legitimate. You can give the man his property without notifying him of the gift.
Because this house in Brooklyn was still under guarantee, the Bank, by law, had to try to find new owners and find out if they can pay the debt.
The same house on Clinton Street (photo Google Maps)
The Bank referred the case to the Brooklyn law firm Hutton & Holahan. Hutton wrote to the Soviet and German consulates in new York in order to find out whether the dictators about the gift that awaits them in Brooklyn. Having received no response, counsel sent the court a messenger with a summons to Stalin and Hitler. The courier first went to 541 Clinton Street, but, of course, did not find there neither Hitler nor Stalin. Then Hatton asked the state Supreme Court to notify them by mail and announcement in the newspaper, because his attempt to deliver the summons failed.
After that Dime Savings Bank is waiting for a response from the leaders of the three weeks. No reaction followed, and, after the due date, the Bank had taken their property rights.
As for the Auslander and Freilicher, their fun cost them $ 439,53, but they must have had some fun…
