State v. Morgan

86 N.C. 732, 85 N.C. 581

Opinion

The following should have appeared among the authorities cited in the report of the case, to wit, Regina v. Brownlow, 39 Eng. Com. Law Rep., 34, to the effect — A coroner’s inquisition on a dead body, found, that on a day and at a place named, the deceased being on board a steamer received a shock from the bursting of the boiler, and that boiling water, coal, &c., were thereby thrown against deceased, of which shock, &c., the deceased instantly died; Inquest quashed because no time was sufficiently laid for the time of the death.