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THOMPSON v. CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

No. 10525.

193 F.2d 953 (1952)

THOMPSON v. CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Woolston, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Philip H. Strubing, Philadelphia, Pa. (Evans, Bayard & Frick, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GOODRICH and HASTIE, Circuit Judges, and BURNS, District Judge.

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the law of defamation, survival of actions and right of privacy. Plaintiff's decedent sued the Curtis Publishing Company because of an article which had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, February 1, 1947. This article was an advertisement by the Post for the efficacy of itself as an advertising medium. One of the features of this advertisement for advertising was a description of an invention which the plaintiff had...

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