Mrs. Lillian Marion Cunningham v. Securities Investment Co. Of St. Louis

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

On November 11, 1958, plaintiff sued defendant alleging an invasion of her privacy. The basis of the alleged invasion of privacy was that while she was in Touro Infirmary recovering from a heart attack, defendant’s agent inquired of her physician on the telephone whether or not he could speak to her about her past due automobile notes. The request was refused by plaintiff’s physician, who, however, gave the message to her son, who, in turn, did nothing about it.

Plaintiff’s claim was: that, when some several months later she learned of defendant’s inquiry, she suffered…