Legal Opinion · Dissent
McGill v. Town of Lumberton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 16, 1939PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1DissentBarnhill, J.
SCHENECK and DEVIN, JJ., concur in dissent. Proceeding under the North Carolina Workmen's Compensation Act for compensation on account of the death of V. R. McGill, chief of police of the town of Lumberton.
The hearing commissioner made findings of fact, pertinent portions of which are substantially these:
The body of V. R. McGill, chief of police of the town of Lumberton, was found on 18 November, 1936, in a room in the town building. He died as the result of a wound in the head inflicted by a bullet fired from a pistol owned by him. "No persons that might have murdered the chief of police…
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