Gantt v. Columbia Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. L. D. Fide, Acting Associate Justice.

This action relates to a certain bottle of Coca-Cola, which it is alleged contained poisonous or deleterious matter, to wit, bluestone. On or about April 2, 1933, George Bell Gantt, the respondent herein, a young man, then about eighteen years of age, purchased for immediate consumption a bottle of Coca-Cola at P. E. Shumpert’s country store in Lexington County. According to the custom in such stores he waited on himself, taking the bottle from the ice box and opening it by use of the opener attached thereto. He…