Participants in legal proceedings are legitimate subjects for comment if restricted to their conduct therein. Rex v. White, 1 Camp. 359; Seymour v. Butterworth, 3 F. & F. 372; Hedley v. Barlow, 4 F. & F. 224; Woodgate v. Ridout, 4 F. & F. 202; Hibbins v. Lee, 4 F. & F. 243; Risk Allah Bey v. Whitehurst, 18 L. T. Rep. 615; Reg. v. Sullivan, 11 Cox C. C. 44, 57; Kane v. Mulvany, Ir. R. 2 C. L. 402; Miner v. Detroit Co., 49 Mich. 358. See also Kelly v. Tinling, L. R. 1 Q. B. 699 (churchwarden); Harle v. Catherall, 14 L. T. Rep. 801 (waywarden).
Matters not of public interest. The right of comment was denied in Latimer v. Western Co., 25 L. T. Rep. 44; Hogan v. Sutton, 16 W. R. 127; Wilson v. Fitch, 41 Cal. 363.
See also Hearne v. Stowell, 12 A. & E. 719; Gathercole v. Miall, 15 M. & W. 319; Walker v. Brogden, 19 C. B. N. S. 65; Booth v. Briscoe, 2 Q. B. Div. 496.
[526]. Arguments omitted.
[527]. The decision of the Appellate Division, overruling demurrer to complaint, is reported in 64 App. Div. 30.
[528]. Corelli v. Wall, 22 Times L. R. 532 (post cards depicting imaginary incidents of an author’s life); Atkinson v. Doherty, 121 Mich. 372 (picture of plaintiff’s dead husband on cigar label); Henry v. Cherry, 30 R. I. 13 (picture as advertisement); Hillman v. Star Pub. Co., 64 Wash. 691 (picture of plaintiff in connection with report of arrest of her father for crime) Accord. Compare Chappell v. Stewart, 82 Md. 323 (shadowing).
Corliss v. Walker, 57 Fed. 434 (semble); Von Theodorovich v. Josef Beneficiary Ass’n, 154 Fed. 911 (semble); Pavesich v. New England Ins. Co., 122 Ga. 190 (picture as advertisement); Foster-Milburn Co. v. Chinn, 134 Ky. 424 (picture as advertisement); Douglas v. Stokes, 149 Ky. 506 (publishing photograph of deceased deformed child of plaintiff); Itzkovitch v. Whitaker, 115 La. 479, 117 La. 708 (photograph in rogues’ gallery); Schulman v. Whitaker, 117 La. 704; Munden v. Harris, 153 Mo. App. 652 (picture as advertisement); Edison v. Edison Polyform & Mfg. Co., 73 N. J. Eq. 136 (picture—but here there was chiefly an interest of substance) Contra.
See also Dill, J. in Vanderbilt v. Mitchell, 72 N. J. Eq. 910, 919.
As to photographing persons arrested on charges of crime, see Hodgman v. Olsen, 86 Wash. 615.
New York, Civil Rights Law, §§ 50, 51 (Laws of 1903, ch. 132, §§ 1, 2).