Court Opinion

ID: 9676740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:31:31.906786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:50.661720
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing
SIMPSON, Justice.
As will appear from the opinion on original deliverance, the complaint attempted to state a cause of action for the invasion of the right of privacy. Yet on rehearing the appellant treats the argument as if she were claiming a trespass or some kind of tort against the deceased’s body and vesting the right of action in her because its allegations show a right of action arising out of interference with burial rights. We deem this argument as inappropriate inasmuch as the complaint failed to allege any actionable trespass on the body as such or any unwarranted interference with burial rights, but depended solely on the invasion of the right of privacy as the cause of action.
As pointed out previously, without deciding whether or not a cause of action for an invasion of the right of privacy was stated, it was the opinion of the court — and still is —that in this suit the notoriety of the deceased as shown by the complaint constituted a forfeiture of any claims to privacy, resulting that the judgment of nonsuit was well sustained.
Opinion extended and application for rehearing overruled.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and GOODWYN and MAYFIELD, JJ., concur.