Wiedemann

Action for damages against Belle Schwartz Pox and West Coast Electronics Company. The latter’s demurrer to the amended complaint having been sustained without leave to amend, judgment of dismissal was entered and plaintiff appeals.

The amended complaint states the essentials of a cause of action for trespass against West Coast. Stripped of *67 surplusage, redundancies and evidentiary matter, it alleges as follows: May 10, 1957, at the request of defendant Fox, employees of West Coast installed an electronic sound surveillance device in the apartment occupied by plaintiff and her husband, William Wiedemann, who was employed as a pastry chef by a Beverly Hills hotel at a salary of $85 per week; entry to the apartment was gained forcibly, unlawfully and without the consent of the Wiedemanns; through conversations overheard by means of the device agents of West Coast learned where Wiedemann was employed and transmitted this information to Mrs. Fox; actuated by malice against the Wiedemanns because of an attack upon her late father contained in an unpublished book written by plaintiff, defendant Fox wrongfully caused Wiedemann to be discharged from his job at the hotel; May 27, 1957,…