Estill v. Hearst Publishing Co., Inc

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order granting defendant’s motion to dismiss and dismissing a complaint in two paragraphs charging libel and invasion of plaintiff’s right of privacy.

The offending matter was contained in the- first of a series of six feature stories written by Elgar Brown with the foreword on the last five that they were “on the blood-smeared career of the late outlaw, John Dillinger, whose influence on those with whom he came in contact was completely evil. The series was inspired by the recent death, in squalor, of Patricia Cher-rington, Dillinger gang ‘moll’.”…