MORRISTOWN — When Nazis seized Henri Adier’s home in France during World War II, he managed to grab many of his most precious belongings when he fled, according to his son and daughter. But after Adier died in 2012 and his home in Morris Township was declared in default on its mortgage, many of those possessions…
I grew up across the street from the Adiers. My parents are still there (since 1975). This story does not gel with what has been seen from the outside for at least a decade or longer. The house fell in severe disrepair at least that long ago and the grounds had overtaken the house-and that was prior to Mr. Adier’s passing. No one came or left after he died (or really much before either). It was, by all counts, an abandoned home pulling down home values in the neighborhood and an utter eyesore. If these items were so important to them, David and Ann should have removed them to be stored properly or used in their homes and for their families. Instead they wait 3 years later to file a lawsuit on a home that’s in foreclosure, abandoned and on the verge of collapse to contact the media too? I am sorry that the relics are gone but the bank owes them nothing. You don’t pay your mortgage and you abandon the home, they claim the house and its contents. Not to sound heartless, but if these items meant so much to them, they should have taken care of this while their father was alive, surely after his passing, absolutely in pre-foreclosure… And not three years later when the house and all contents WERE abandoned long ago. Their father and the history deserved much better than what his children have done with his legacy-then and now.