Lane v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

This is an action at law based on section 51 of the Civil Eights Law. Plaintiff, an actress, alleges that the defendant, conducting retail stores popularly known as five- and ten-cent stores, sold lockets containing her photograph] in the language of the complaint that “ defendant has knowingly and unlawfully and without the consent of the plaintiff, written or otherwise, used and distributed for advertising purposes and the purposes of trade, the photograph of plaintiff by offering for sale and actually selling to the retail trade in its retail stores, the articles of jewelry as…