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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wesson, Marianne.     Subjects     Hillmon, Sallie E. -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Trials -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.     Insurance crimes -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Cases.     Evidence, Hearsay -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wesson, Marianne.       by title:      A death at Crooked C...         MARC Display

A death at Crooked Creek : the case of the cowboy, the cigarmaker, and the love letter / Marianne Wesson. by Wesson, Marianne. New York : New York University Press, [2013] Subjects Hillmon, Sallie E. -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Trials -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.   Insurance crimes -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Cases.   Evidence, Hearsay -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases. ISBN:  9780814784563 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814784569 (cloth : alk. paper) Description:  xxvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 346.08632 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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