McCORMACK v. OKLAHOMA PUB. CO.

No. 52564.

613 P.2d 737 (1980)

W. Howard McCORMACK, an Individual, Appellant, v. The OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, and Jack Taylor, an Individual, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Odell, Wm. L. Peterson, Jr., Raymond E. Tompkins, of Hanson, Peterson, Tompkins, Buchanan & Odell, Inc., Oklahoma City, for appellant.

Pierson, Ball & Dowd, David Machanic and Michael Minnis, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


DOOLIN, Justice:

By court decision, Oklahoma already recognizes a limited cause of action in tort founded on invasion of privacy. Munley v. ISC Financial House, Inc., 584 P.2d 1336 (Okl. 1978) applied the Restatement of the Law of Torts § 652, its standards and definitions, to an action based on creditor harassment. In addition 21 O.S. 1971 § 839.1 prohibits appropriation...

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