BASTIAN v. COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO

Docket No. B024766.

199 Cal.App.3d 520 (1988)

245 Cal. Rptr. 78

RICHARD S. BASTIAN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

March 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Raymond L. Girard for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Ernst & Mattison, Raymond E. Mattison and Patricia Gomez for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

GILBERT, J.

A driver is killed in an automobile accident. A deputy sheriff arrives at the scene of the accident and places an empty vodka bottle alongside the body of the victim. A newspaper photographer arrives a short time later, and in the presence of the deputy sheriff photographs the scene without knowing it is contrived. Because of the publication of the misleading photograph, the photographer loses his job and his reputation...

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