A Death at Crooked Creek [Recurso electrónico] : The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter / Marianne Wesson.
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TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: New York : New York University Press, 2013 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (xxvi, 379 pages :) illustrationsTipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9780814784570
- 0814784569
- Hillmon, Sallie E. -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Evidence, Hearsay -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases
- Insurance crimes -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Cases
- Trials -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon, 145 U.S. 285 (1892)
- 346.73/08632
- KF228.H543 .W47 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) 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.
Libro Electrónico
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