MORRELL v. FORBES, INC.

Civ. A. No. 83-1099-N.

603 F.Supp. 1305 (1985)

Thomas MORRELL, Plaintiff, v. FORBES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Rose, Falmouth, Mass., for plaintiff.

John T. Williams, Victor Bass, John T. Harding, Palmer & Dodge, Boston, Mass., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DAVID S. NELSON, District Judge.

In September 1973, a local newspaper photographer took a photograph of the plaintiff, a fisherman by trade, while he was unloading a catch of crabs on the Boston Fish Pier. A few days later, the photograph appeared in the Boston Globe as a human interest item. The plaintiff objected neither to having his picture taken nor to its publication.

Then in April 1982, the defendant Forbes, Inc. published...

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