... of evidence, a love letter allegedly written by Walters to his fiancée, Alvina Kasten, and presents excerpts from her deposition in the case of Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al.. Finally, it looks at the original pleadings, orders, transcripts, and exhibits to the six trials...

...This chapter focuses on the two trials of the John Wesley Hillmon case. The case of Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al. was called for a second trial on June 6, 1885. The jury selected included four former members of the Kansas Legislature. Followers of the first trial...

...This chapter focuses on the sixth and final trial of the John Wesley Hillmon case that began and ended in 1899. The sixth and last trial of the case of Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al. was called to order on October 8, 1899, at Leavenworth, with William Cather Hook...

... in Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al. and how he addressed the question of the admissibility of the letters written by Frederick Adolph Walters and of hearsay evidence more generally. homesteaders homesteading Ingalls John Kansas Senator Kansas Peffer William Kansas Senator People’s...

...This chapter discusses developments following the jury verdict for Sallie Quinn Hillmon in the sixth and last trial of the case of Hillmon v. Mutual Life Insurance Company et al. Within weeks after their loss, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and Connecticut Mutual Life...