Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon

Sallie Hillmon (plaintiff) sued Mutual Life (defendant) to recover on her husband's life insurance policy, but a dispute arose over whether a body found at Crooked Creek was actually her husband's or that of a man named Walters; Mutual Life sought to introduce two letters Walters wrote to his sister and fiancée, sent before the Crooked Creek trip, expressing his intent to accompany Hillmon's husband on it. The trial court excluded the letters as hearsay, and Mutual Life appealed.