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A death at Crooked Creek the case of the cowboy, the cigarmaker, and the love letter

Title: A death at Crooked Creek [electronic resource] : the case of the cowboy, the cigarmaker, and the love letter / Marianne Wesson.
Author: Wesson, Marianne.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, [2013]

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Description

1 online resource (xxvi, 379 pages) : illustrations.

Uniform Title

Death at Crooked Creek (Online)

Alternative Title

Death at Crooked Creek (Online)

Subject

Hillmon, Sallie E. > Trials, litigation, etc
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York > Trials, litigation, etc
Trials > Kansas > History > 19th century
Insurance fraud > Kansas > History > 19th century > Cases
Evidence, Hearsay > United States > History > 19th century > Cases

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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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