Sustin v. Fee

The gravamen of appellants’ complaint is that appellee’s action was a tortious intrusion upon their right of seclusion. In the leading case of Housh v. Peth (1956), 165 Ohio St. 35, this court recognized a cause of action for invasion of privacy based upon the wrongful intrusion upon a person’s seclusion. In so doing, this court held, at paragraphs one and two of the syllabus:

“1. The right of privacy is the right of a person to be let alone, to be free from unwarranted publicity, and to live without unwarranted interference by the public in matters with which the public is not necessarily…