Whether it is the Friday morning after a 'bar-review' social, the day after a little-too-celebratory victory dinner or a Tuesday, many law students, lawyers and other normal humans have experienced the bitter aftertaste of a brutal hangover. Suffice to say, however, that even their worst headaches, nausea and listlessness can't compare to what James Carl Haggerty felt the morning he woke up sans the $1.3 million painting he had been entrusted by a friend to sell.
Minority owner Kristyn Trudgeon is hoping to recoup the cost of the painting according to the lawsuit she filed in New York recently. Though it is unclear what the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit will be, here's hoping it goes to trial so we can all look forward to more gems such as Haggerty's statement that he "could not recall (the painting's) whereabouts" because he "had too much to drink the previous evening." Blawgconomics is not necessarily barred in New York, but nonetheless gets the feeling that being drunk is not exactly a valid defense to negligence there...
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