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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Wesson, Marianne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Author’s Notes
  • Contents
  • Important Characters in the Story of the Hillmon Case
  • Timeline of Events Important to the Hillmon Litigation
  • Prologue
  • 1 A Winter Journey Leads to an Inquest
  • 2 The Parties Ready Their Cases for Trial
  • 3 The Hillmon Case Is Tried before a Jury
  • 4 The Case Is Tried Twice More, and a Surprising Objection Is Made
  • 5 The Supreme Court Hears a Case of “Graveyard Insurance”
  • 6 John Hillmon Is Reported to Be Alive as the Arduous Fourth Trial Proceeds
  • 7 The Fifth Trial Progresses Briskly but Ends Inconclusively, and New York Life Capitulates
  • 8 The Hillmon Case Is Tried for the Last Time
  • 9 The Century Turns, and the Hillmon Case Is Concluded
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About The Author

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