Powell v. Paramount-Richards Theatres

Odile Powell, widow of Alexander Thornton, brought this suit against Paramount-Richards Theatres, Inc., and its insurance carrier, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, to recover compensation for the death of her brother, Robert Powell, who was fatally injured on April 26th, 1943, in an accident arising out and in the course of his employment as a laborer for the first named defendant. She alleges that she is her brother's sole dependent; that he left neither ascendants nor descendants; that he had never been married and that, due to the fact that she was and is physically…