Case Name: In State v. Morgan
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1882-02
Citations: 86 N.C. 732
Docket Number: 
Parties: In State v. Morgan,
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 732–732

Head Matter:
In State v. Morgan,
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.