Raleigh, July 11 (AP)—Joseph Loyd Horton, 32, youngest judge ever to sit on the North Carolina Superior Court bench, died this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at his residence here after an illness of nine days. Death was caused by acute dilation of the heart following an attack of meningitis.
Death came to the former jurist after he had apparently successfully passed the crisis of meningitis and was on the road to recovery he had been talking to his physician, Dr. Hubert Haywood Jr., only a moment before he died and was conscious to the last. Dr. Haywood stated tonight that while Juge Horton had had a severe case of meningitis with a slight kidney complication, death was caused instantly by an acute dilation of the heart.
Judge Horton died at the age when most men are just entering public life, but during the 11 years he had been practicing law he had held the offices of county prosecutor, solicitor of the fifth judicial district and Superior Court judge. He was elected to the last named office at the age of 26 and held the distinction, according to the records, of being the youngest jurist ever to sit on the North Carolina Superior court bench.
Editor's Note: Horton's body was under extreme stress due to the meningitis and this led to sudden heart failure. The heart balloned out, lost its ability to contract, blood pressure collapsed, and he died.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., July 12, 1926
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