A Death at Crooked Creek : The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter /
Discusses a landmark Supreme Court case on the admissibility of hearsay evidence involving a dead cowboy, his widow, and a $25,000 insurance policy.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Important characters in the story of the Hillmon case
- Timeline of events important to the Hillmon litigation
- A winter journey leads to an inquest : 1879
- The parties ready their cases for trial : 1879-1882
- The Hillmon case is tried before a jury : 1882
- The case is tried twice more, and a surprising objection is made : 1884-1888
- The Supreme Court hears a case of "graveyard insurance" : 1892
- John Hillmon is reported to be alive as the arduous fourth trial proceeds : 1893-95
- The fifth trial progresses briskly but ends inconclusively, and New York Life capitulates : 1896-1899
- The Hillmon case is tried for the last time : 1899
- The century turns, and the Hillmon case is concluded : 1900-1903.