COLE v. GUILFORD COUNTY AND HARTFORD ACC. & IND. CO.

No. 600.

131 S.E.2d 308 (1963)

259 N.C. 724

William M. COLE, Executor of the Estate of Elizabeth M. Cole, William M. Cole, Individually, and Clarence E. Cole, Mae Cole Long, Jack B. Cole, and Edna Cole Brasher, Next of Kin of Elizabeth M. Cole, Deceased, v. GUILFORD COUNTY AND HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Falk, Carruthers & Roth, Greensboro, for plaintiff appellees.

Adams, Kleemeier, Hagan & Hannah, Greensboro, for defendant appellants.


SHARP, Justice.

Under the Workmen's Compensation Act a compensable death is one which results to an employee from an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. G.S. § 97-2(6); Slade v. Willis Hosiery Mills, 209 N.C. 823, 184 S.E. 844; Plemmons v. White's Service, 213 N.C. 148, 195 S.E. 370.

In our view of this case, it is not necessary to decide the interesting question whether a juror serving during a term of the Superior...

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