Greatrex v. Evangelical Deaconess Hospital

On September 8, 1923, plaintiff, William O. Greatrex, brought his wife and their week-old baby to defendant Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, a Michigan corporation formed for nonprofit purposes. Nine days later, plaintiff’s wife died and he took her body to Toronto for burial. He left the baby at the hospital with the assurance that for $1 a day the baby would receive the best of care. At about the time of the birth of the Greatrex baby, the daughter of one Ylemminck gave birth at the hospital to a child, the result of an incestuous relationship between Ylemminck and his daughter. When the…