People v. Thompson
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from recorder’s court of Detroit; Chapin, J. Thomas M. Thompson was convicted of manslaughter.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The respondent was tried and convicted of manslaughter, in the recorder’s court of Detroit, on. an indictment found in the circuit court for the-county of Wayne. The case comes here on exceptions before judgment.
The respondent was, in November, 1895, an engineer having charge of two boilers and other machinery in a building on Larned street, in Detroit. On the morning of the 6th of November one of the boilers exploded with terrific force, destroying the building in which it was located. As a result of the explosion, a number of lives were lost. Among the killed was Michael Ward. The grand…
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