Frankamp v. Fordney Hotel

The supply of water in Saginaw was thought to be impure. To get water of a better quality the Fordney Hotel put down an artesian well on its own property and piped the water therefrom throughout the hotel except in the pool room. On January 15, 1922, the plaintiff entered the employ of the hotel company as head waitress; she roomed and boarded in the hotel until the 23d of February when she was taken down with typhoid fever, which she •claims was the result of drinking the water from the artesian well. Soon after she was taken sick she was removed to a hospital. It was some time before she…