001480188 000__ 06113nam\a22008055i\4500 001480188 001__ 1480188 001480188 003__ DE-B1597 001480188 005__ 20231026035129.0 001480188 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480188 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480188 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480188 020__ $$a9780814784570 001480188 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814784563.001.0001$$2doi 001480188 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548623 001480188 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480188 0410_ $$aeng 001480188 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480188 050_4 $$aPS3573.E81498$$bW47 2016 001480188 072_7 $$aHIS036000$$2bisacsh 001480188 08204 $$a346.7308632$$223 001480188 1001_ $$aWesson, Marianne, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480188 24512 $$aA Death at Crooked Creek :$$bThe Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter /$$cMarianne Wesson. 001480188 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001480188 264_4 $$c©2013 001480188 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480188 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480188 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480188 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480188 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480188 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tAuthor's Notes -- $$tContents -- $$tImportant Characters in the Story of the Hillmon Case -- $$tTimeline of Events Important to the Hillmon Litigation -- $$tPrologue -- $$t1 A Winter Journey Leads to an Inquest -- $$t2 The Parties Ready Their Cases for Trial -- $$t3 The Hillmon Case Is Tried before a Jury -- $$t4 The Case Is Tried Twice More, and a Surprising Objection Is Made -- $$t5 The Supreme Court Hears a Case of "Graveyard Insurance" -- $$t6 John Hillmon Is Reported to Be Alive as the Arduous Fourth Trial Proceeds -- $$t7 The Fifth Trial Progresses Briskly but Ends Inconclusively, and New York Life Capitulates -- $$t8 The Hillmon Case Is Tried for the Last Time -- $$t9 The Century Turns, and the Hillmon Case Is Concluded -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout The Author 001480188 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480188 520__ $$a"This is anextraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact andtheory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, forthat matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which agrand and marvelously detailed tale is told. This is modern narrative at itsbest: a marriage of spectacular writing and hard, documented truth presented bya brilliant author who doubles as a gifted and fastidious legal scholar andhistorian."-Andrew Popper,American UniversityOne winter night in1879, at a lonely Kansas campsite near Crooked Creek, a man was shot to death.The dead man's traveling companion identified him as John Hillmon, a cowboyfrom Lawrence who had been attempting to carve out a life on the blusteryprairie. The case might have been soon forgotten and the apparent widow, SallieHillmon, left to mourn-except for the $25,000 life insurance policies Hillmonhad taken out shortly before his departure. The insurance companies refused topay on the policies, claiming that the dead man was not John Hillmon, andSallie was forced to take them to court in a case that would reach the SupremeCourt twice. The companies' case rested on a crucial piece of evidence: a fadedlove letter written by a disappeared cigarmaker, declaring his intent to travelwestward with a "man named Hillmon."In A Death atCrooked Creek, Marianne Wesson re-examines the long-neglected evidence inthe case of the Kansas cowboy and his wife, recreating the court scenes thatled to a significant Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of hearsayevidence. Wesson employs modern forensic methods to examine the body of thedead man, attempting to determine his true identity and finally put thisfascinating mystery to rest.This engaging andvividly imagined work combines the drama, intrigue, and emotion of excellentstorytelling with cutting-edge forensic investigation techniques and legaltheory. Wesson's superbly imagined A Death at Crooked Creek willhave general readers, history buffs, and legal scholars alike wondering whetherhistory, and the Justices, may have misunderstood altogether the events at thatbleak winter campsite. 001480188 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480188 546__ $$aIn English. 001480188 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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