Leah Clampitt Sewell tries to go to court, Los Angeles, 1935

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Sewell Estate Receiver Sought by Suing Wife," Los Angeles Times, 03 May 1935: A10.
Judge McComb has postponed Mrs. Clampitt Sewell's case until May 14th. She asks $2000 a month separate maintenance, $50,000 attorney fees and $2500 court costs.
Leah wears a thick piece of fur over her shoulders and holds one hand up as if taking an oath.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1213 Mrs. Barton Sewell (now Mrs. Charles /Taley)
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Barton Sewell
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Leah Clampitt Sewell, figure in the quadrangle divorce case, appeared in alimony court yesterday. She asked a receiver for the estate of Barton Sewell, her estranged husband, estimating it worth $14,000,000.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Sewell, Leah Clampitt
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7542
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002df7x7
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