Engman v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

I concur fully in the opinion of Turnage, J., in its holding that plaintiffs stated a cause of action for the tort of willful invasion of their privacy by defendant in entering their home for the purpose of removing telephones. What the dissenting opinion herein does is to grant defendant an absolute defense of a license to enter plaintiffs’ abode in violation of their well established right of privacy — the right to be free of physical intrusion into their premises. See the discussion of this right, Hofstadter and Horowitz, “The Right of Privacy,” § 9.1, p. 95, and the case examples there…