Judge to Render Decision Soon
on Who Gets Treasured Spice Box
Southfield District Court Judge
S. James Clarkson will render a
written decision next week on the
dispute over ownership of a 100-
year-old spice box that was heard
in his chambers this week.
Judge Clarkson said he wanted
to do further study of religious law
and custom before he issues his
decision.
The spice box, used in the tradi-
tional Havdala service on Saturday
night, was fashioned in silver from
melted Russian rubles by Michael
Karmann, the grandfather of the
complainant, Doris Karmann of
Oak Park.
She brought suit against her
cousin, Dr. Myron J. Bakst of
Southfield, who has the spice box
in his possession.
Judge Clarkson said it isn't so
much the monetary value a the
spice box--about $5N to $56—
but rather the sentimental and
religious value that makes the
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objeci treasured by both parties
to the dispute.
He added that he would have to
delve into Jewish law for disposi-
tion of the case. The testimony in-
cluded a feature article on the
spice box that appeared in the De-
troit News in 1935. Several rabbis
appeared to testify.
Judge Clarkson will, in effect,
have to render a Solomon's deci-
sion because of the claim each
side lays to the object.
Miss Karmann said that the
spice box was among the posses.
sions of her grandparents, and
went to their eldest son—Miss Kar-
mann's father, Herman—when they
entered the Jewish Home for Aged.
She said the spice box was in
her family's home for more than
20 years. Her cousin borrowed it
for an exhibit but never returned
it, she said, despite her father's ef-
forts to get it back. Her father
since passed away, and she feels
that she is entitled to the spice box
as part of his estate.
She said she was advised to take
the case to a civil court because
a rabbinical court (beth din) would
not have been legally binding on
the defendant.
Dr. Bakst, on the other hand,
said he would have abided by a
beth din. Although he was not al-
lowed to present as court testi-
mony the words of a dead man,
Dr. Bakst told The Jewish News
that as a boy he had been prom-
ised by his grandfather one day the
spice box would be his.
On the basis that he and his late
mother were very close to the old
man, Dr. Bakst feels that Miss
Karmann's insistence on the right
of the first-born son does not hold
in this case.
The spice box, said Dr. Bakst,
represents his grandfather's claim
to posterity, and for this reason he
feels a deep emotional attachment
to it.
If he is not perMitted to own it,
Dr. Bakst added, he hopes it will
go to a museum or synagogue,
where it can be properly displayed.
Detroit attorney ALFRED A.
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