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WALCHER v. LOEW'S INCORPORATED

No. 5385.

129 F.Supp. 815 (1949)

Beulah Greenwalt WALCHER, Plaintiff, v. LOEW'S Incorporated, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

July 26, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel H. Lieberman and Donald J. Meyer, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiff.

Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young and Richard D. Shewmaker, St. Louis, Mo., for defendant.

MOORE, District Judge.

In this case, a suit for damages for an alleged invasion of the plaintiff's right of privacy, the verdict was for $65,000 actual damages and $225,000 punitive damages. A search of the authorities reveals no verdict in the Federal Courts in Missouri, nor in the State Courts of Missouri, for as large an amount as the total of $290,000 has ever been returned, much less sustained, in any case involving...

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