Strutner v. Dispatch Printing Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas and raises a single assignment of error, as fdlows:

“The judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, granting summary judgment for defendants-appellees, is contrary to law.”

Plaintiff brought this action claiming an invasion of privacy predicated upon a newspaper article printed in the Columbus Dispatch, in which plaintiff was identified, by name and address, as the parent of Brent Strutner who not only had been arrested for assaulting a police officer in Willoughby, Ohio, but was being questioned as a suspect in a brutal…