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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Hello Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>I suggest you return the medals to the donor and let the family sort it out. No point in getting involved in a family dispute. That’s our policy and it gets us out of the middle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Ted Leaker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Ashton Armoury Museum</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca">Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:41 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[BCMA] Donation dispute</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seeking advice</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We accepted a donation of WW1 metals from a granddaughter of the WW1combatant. The sister of the donor has sent emails demanding we give the metals to her even threatening legal action.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>From the emails, the they to not get along. The sister didn't know the metals existed so I don't know how she found out we had just received them.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Our donation form has the line that the donor has the legal right to donate them to us. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any advice how to deal with the situation? If we give them back, I believe we need to give them to the donor, not the sister. We don't have a legal dept.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim Millar</p><p class=MsoNormal>Port Moody Station Museum</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>BCMA mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>BCMA@lists.vifa.ca</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.vifa.ca/mailman/listinfo/bcma</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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