The "So Who Gets The Money?" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Picked up my morning newspaper and there on the front page was a fellow holding a few pieces of stained glass.  Drew my interest immediately since I too love to work with stained glass and have made several stained glass windows to hang in my home at Woodcrest Villas.   The fellow whose photo was displayed in the paper while holding the stained glass was an architectural treasure hunter.  His name was Paul Brown who had purchased two rare stained-glass windows and spent upward of $100,000 for the windows and the repairs.  Now, months later, Mr. Brown has yet to receive any money for them since he has an ongoing legal dispute over who had the right to sell the rare windows in the first place.  Once the windows were discovered to be valuable, a range of parties sought to retroactively claim ownership over them.  Well, for the rest of the story.....Mr. Brown bought the rose windows in November 2022 from William Brownlee, the owner of a colossal church at 50th Street and Baltimore Ave. in West Philadelphia.  Brownlee, pastor of Emmanuel Christian Center, had purchased the building in 2022 for $1.7 million in hopes of transforming it into a community center.  Brownlee directed contractors to remove the pews, carved wainscoting, wood trim, flooring, tables, chairs, windows and light fixtures.  It was during that process that Mr.  Brown purchased the stained glass windows for $6,000.  He took the stained glass windows to Freeman's auction house where Mr. Freeman identified them as rare Tiffany glass.  At Mr. Brown's expense, he took the windows to upstate New York to be cleaned and restored.  At the time it was confirmed that Mr. Brown owned them.  Some time later Freeman's sold the windows to an anonymous buyer at auction for $126,000 each. Brown signed an agreement with Freeman's that he would be paid 35 days after the sale.  A few days after the agreement was signed, a letter was received that froze the sale.  The owner of the mortgage of the church where Mr. Brownlee was minister said that the windows were part of a mortgage lien and therefore belonged to the bank.  It was a difficult problem!  As of this date, everything is in limbo.  What would you do if you thought you had purchased a church and all of the stained glass windows and find out the windows weren't part of the sale of the place?  Ask for your money back?  Hire a lawyer and try to sue for the windows.  I guess you need to make sure exactly what you are bidding on when you raise your hand!  I'm not sure exactly what happened or is in the process of being worked out at present.  I'm just glad it wasn't me who thought they had purchased an entire building and found out certain parts of the buiding weren't included.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.