Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
I think this boils down to what you are suing over. Are you suing because you have legitimately been wronged and are looking for recourse (someone ran you over and now you are a million dollars in debt); or, are you suing as a way of getting back at someone (so and so said this about me and it was embarrassing).
In the first case, it makes sense for me to sue the estate. someone did something, intentionally or unintentionally, that has costed you and they should be on the hook for it because it was their fault. In this case, he just wanted to get back at the guy by suing is corporation. It was already exposed as made up, so there is no more personal foul here. He wanted to hurt the man who wronged him, but can't because the guy died. I would have been satisfied with that. But no, he keeps pushing and fighting to take what was now rightfully the widowed family's estate. I don't think that's cool, and a far greater injustice than making up some story about what a guy said.
Venture gave Mr. Kyle, and Mrs. Kyle after Mr. Kyle's murder, the opportunity to remove that passage from the book, and a dropping of the lawsuit.
Mr. Kyle refused before his death, and Mrs. Kyle refused after.
That would have been the easiest and simplest solution, and would have made the book copies already released significantly more valuable..win win.