John Factor v. Carson, Pirie Scott & Company, Kroch's & Brentano's, Inc., the Fair, Illinois Corporations, and Ray Brennan

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

John Factor, plaintiff, a resident of California, has appealed from a judgment of the district court dismissing, on the authority of an Illinois statute of limitations,1 his suit for libel and invasion of privacy, refiled in 1965.

The litigation is a result of the publication and sale of a book entitled “The Stolen Years” which plaintiff’s counsel describe as a partially ghost-written autobiography of one Roger Touhy. Plaintiff maintains that the book charges him with perpetrating “one of the biggest swindles of its kind in history”, and that, in addition, its…