A death at Crooked Creek : the case of the cowboy, the cigarmaker, and the love letter / Marianne Wesson.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814784570
- 0814784577
- Hillmon, Sallie E. -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Hillmon, Sallie E
- Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
- Trials -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century
- Insurance fraud -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Cases
- Evidence, Hearsay -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases
- Procès -- Kansas -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Fraude à l'assurance -- Kansas -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Jurisprudence
- Preuve par commune renommée -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Jurisprudence
- LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- Evidence, Hearsay
- Insurance fraud
- Trials
- Kansas
- United States
- 1800-1899
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon, 145 U.S. 285 (1892)
- 346.73/08632 23
- KF228.H543 .W47 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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This book mixes fact and theory to explore the startling origin of the 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule.
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