The Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Wood

Appellee, Alice Wood, recovered judgment for $1,000 against appellant, in the White circuit court, to compensate damages alleged to have been sustained by drinking a portion of a bottle of Coca-Cola, bottled by appellant, which contained a rusty and corroded Coca-Cola bottle cap. The acts of negligence set out in her complaint are: “That the said plaintiff drank practically all of the contents of the said bottle of ‘ Coca-Cola’ that the contents of the said bottle were poisonous, unwholesome and unfit for human consumption in that it. contained a bottle cap which was rusty and corroded and…