Binns v. The Vitagraph Co.

Defendant moves to set aside the verdict of a jury of $12,500 rendered upon an assessment of damages, pursuant to. the findings of the court at Special Term.

•The only important question of law presented at the Trial Term was that touching the measure of damages. It is important to bear in mind the nature of this action, which rests solely upon the provisions of the statute now embraced in the Civil Eights Law, designed to protect the individual in his right of privacy. The act of the defendant may not be regarded as libelous nor one involving an infringement of "one’s business rights, such as…