Section 51 of the Civil Rights Law, gives a right of action for damages to a "person whose name, portrait or picture is used within this state * * * for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained". Special Term has sustained the sufficiency of the complaint herein as stating causes of action on behalf of both plaintiffs under section 51. We have reached a contrary result.
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