Morton v. Raphael

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the spring of 1946, the plaintiff, Ruth Morton, was commissioned to paint murals on the walls of the Great Lakes Room of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago. After she had completed her work, defendants, interior decorators, were engaged to redecorate the entire room. Thereafter, in the July 1946 issue of the nationally circulated -magazine Hotel Management, there appeared defendants’ advertisement showing several photographic views of the newly decorated room, including plaintiff’s murals. After she saw the advertisement she…