Schuyler v. . Curtis
New York Court of Appeals
. Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made June 22, 1893, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff granting a perpetual injunction entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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. Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made June 22, 1893, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff granting a perpetual injunction entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to restrain them from making a statue or bust of the late Mrs. Mary M. Hamilton Schuyler in any form, and from causing the same to be made or exhibited; also from receiving or soliciting subscriptions for the purpose of defraying the cost and expenses of…
1Opinion of the Court
Peckham, 3".
This action is of a nature somewhat unusual and depends for its support upon an application of certain principles which are themselves not very clearly defined or their boundaries very well recognized or plainly laid down. Briefly described the action is founded upon an alleged violation of what is termed the right of privacy. The alleged violation of this right, so far as regards the plaintiff, consists of an attempt on the part of certain reputable women, among them the female defendants herein, without the sanction of the plaintiff or other immediate members of the family, to…
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