Roddy Mfg. Co. v. Cox

The plaintiff, Dan Cox, brought this suit before a Justice of the Peace against the defendant, Roddy Manufacturing Company, to recover damages for sickness suffered by him as a result of drinking a portion of the contents of a bottle of Coca-Cola containing the body of a dead mouse — which bottle of Coca-Cola had been bottled by defendant and sold to the proprietor of a cafe or soft drink stand from whom plaintiff bought it.

The Justice of the Peace rendered a judgment in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed to the circuit court where the case was tried by the Circuit…