Ramada Inns, Inc. v. Marriott Corporation

CASE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court, sitting without a jury, in favor of plaintiffs-appellees and against defendant-appellent. The parties will be referred to herein as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff Marriott Corporation and its subsidiary corporations, Marriott Motor Hotels, Inc. and Camelback Inn Company, all Delaware corporations, instituted an action for a declaratory judgment, alleging that they had an exclusive right to the words “we smile more” to the exclusion of defendant and all others and requested that the court enjoin defendant from the…