Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 18, 1885 (Nourse v. Packard)

Morton, C. J.

The plaintiff’s intestate, Charles A. Nourse, was killed by the falling of a part of the defendant’s mill, which contained a large quantity of grain.

It is a reasonable conclusion from the evidence, that he died from suffocation, and that he lived in a state of conscious suffering for a few minutes’ after the fall.