Oklahoma Biltmore, Inc. v. Williams

The plaintiff, a negro maid employed by the defendant corporation at its hotel in Oklahoma City, brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries inflicted upon her by an ice-crushing machine owned- and operated by the defendant in the basement of said hotel.

The plaintiff’s daily hours of employment at the hotel were from 11 o’clock at night until 7 o’clock the next morning, and her work principally consisted of cleaning the lobby, the radio station, and the barber shop and beauty parlor in the hotel.

One part of the basement in the hotel contained a locker room in which individual…