Mrs. Alline E. Cordell v. Detective Publications, Inc.

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the granting of summary judgment to defendant Detective Publications, Inc., in an invasion of privacy action brought by Mrs. Alline Cordell. Plaintiff claims that defendant invaded her right of privacy by publishing in one of its magazines an unauthorized and sensational account of her daughter’s murder.

The District Court, after reviewing affidavits and answers to interrogatories, held that Mrs. Cordell had no cause of action, and we agree. We reach this decision although we are offended by defendant’s tasteless exploitation .of this tragedy, 1 and…