HOUSH v. PETH

No. 34467.

165 Ohio St. 35 (1956)

HOUSH, APPELLEE, v. PETH, APPELLANT, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James C. Baggott, for appellee.

Messrs. McLeran, Kelly & McLeran, for appellant.


WEYGANDT, C. J.

The first question presented by the defendant is whether the right of privacy exists in Ohio.

This right has had an interesting history. Its basic concept in various forms is not new, but in this country its chief impetus as an independent right seems to have originated in an article by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis in the year 1890 in 4 Harvard Law Review, 193. The first recognition of...

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