A Death at Crooked Creek : The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter /

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Discusses a landmark Supreme Court case on the admissibility of hearsay evidence involving a dead cowboy, his widow, and a $25,000 insurance policy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wesson, Marianne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hillmon, Sallie E. > Trials, litigation, etc.
Hillmon, Sallie E.
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York > Trials, litigation, etc.
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
Evidence, Hearsay > United States > History > 19th century > Cases.
Insurance crimes > Kansas > History > 19th century > Cases.
Trials > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Trials.
Insurance fraud.
Evidence, Hearsay.
Preuve par commune renommee > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle > Jurisprudence.
Fraude à l'assurance > Kansas > Histoire > 19e siecle > Jurisprudence.
Proces > Kansas > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Insurance fraud > Kansas > History > 19th century > Cases.
United States.
Kansas.
Cases.
Trials, litigation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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