Mau v. Rio Grande Oil, Inc.

ST. SURE, District Judge.

This is an action in tort invoking the right to privacy, or what Judge Cooley called the right “to be let alone.”

Plaintiff, employed as a chauffeur, was, on March 22, 1937, held up by a robber and shot, suffering serious injury. His nerves received a severe shock, and as a result of the encounter he became “mentally ill, nervous and distraught.” Mere mention of the shooting caused acute nervous attacks. On and prior to August 4, 1938, defendant Rio Grande Oil, Inc., a corporation, was engaged in producing through the radio facilities of defendant Columbia Broadcasting…