Jurors on Monday awarded Steve Seltzer nearly $21.4 million in damages in a dispute over a painting owned by a Morton Salt heir. Steve Morton had sued Seltzer over his conclusion that the painting was the work of his grandfather, and not C.M. Russell. Seltzer then filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Morton, attorney Dennis Gladwell and Gladwell's former firm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, alleging that Morton's suit had damaged his reputation as an expert on his grandfather's work.
February 09, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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An art expert was unfairly sued after he concluded that his own grandfather had created a Western-theme painting bearing the name of a better-known artist, a jury ruled.
Jurors on Monday awarded Steve Seltzer nearly $21.4 million in damages in the dispute over the watercolor “Lassoing a Longhorn,” supposedly signed by the painter C.M. Russell in 1913. It is owned by Steve Morton, an heir to the Morton Salt fortune.
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