Aristocrat looses Supreme Court battle over chateau inventory

Jerome Colloredo-Mansfeld, member of an old Bohemian aristocratic family, has lost his plea at the Supreme Court for the return of almost 3000 objects in the inventory of his chateau in Dobříš, some 40 km south-west of Prague. Mr Colloredo-Mansfeld received the chateau in a property restitution in 1998, after a six-year legal feud with the Czech State, but was not given back any items in the inventory. He then filed another lawsuit against the state but the Supreme Court has confirmed the ruling of lower courts in the dispute.