Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — Furnished Impure Water. [ARTICLE]

Furnished Impure Water.

At Stevens Point, Wis., the jury in the case of Julia L. Green, as administrator, against the Ashland Water .Company, brought in a special verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000. The grounds of recovery were the alleged negligence of the Ashland Water Company in furnishing impure and unwholesome water, containing typhoid fever germs, to the plaintiff’s husband, Lars G. Green, from the effects of which he died. The rerdict answered all the questions in favor •f the plaintiff.