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Cherrie Armour, the year of her alimony dispute and a damages suit following a hit-and-run automobile accident, Los Angeles, 1940

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Title: Cherrie Armour, the year of her alimony dispute and a damages suit following a hit-and-run automobile accident, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Miss Cherrie Armour, daughter of an oil company executive, who faced many legal woes in 1940. In January she went to court to try to stop her ex-husband James Monroe Jefferson from reducing her alimony payments. In September she was sentenced to a year in county jail and forced to pay a settlement to Jean and Josephine Rose for injuring them in a hit-and-run car accident, during which Armour was under the influence of alcohol.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Armour, Cherrie - Mrs.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mrs Cherrie Armour
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027zn0q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Disaster
Armour, Cherrie
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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