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MAU v. RIO GRANDE OIL, INC.

No. 21192-S.

28 F.Supp. 845 (1939)

MAU v. RIO GRANDE OIL, Inc., et al.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

August 31, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melbert B. Adams, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Samuel M. Samter, of San Francisco, Cal., and Louis J. Irving, of Los Angeles, Cal. (H. L. Dunnigan, of Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for defendants.

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."1

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...

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