HILL v. HAYES


14 Misc.2d 249 (1956)

James J. Hill et al., Plaintiffs, v. Joseph Hayes et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

June 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd (Leonard Garment of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Gilbert & Gilbert and A. L. Berman for Joseph Hayes and others, defendants.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (Horace S. Manges and Milton Haselkorn of counsel), for Random House, Inc., and others, defendants.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore for Tine, Inc., defendant.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett for Paramount Pictures Corporation, defendant.


SAUL S. STREIT, J.

The causes of action sought to be dismissed as insufficient charge the moving defendants, publishers of the novel "The Desperate Hours", with having violated plaintiffs' right of privacy under the Civil Rights Law of this State. The allegations of said causes of action reveal that there was no identification of plaintiffs as persons referred to in the novel until the publication in Life magazine of an article which disclosed...

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