Coca-Cola Bottling Works v. Curtis

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Siler,

Reversing.

After she drank a bottle of Coca-Cola containing a dead honeybee, Mary E. Curtis, the appellee, recovered judgment for $225 against Coca-Cola Bottling Works, a corporation of Lexington, the appellant. There followed this motion for appeal by appellant.

The three grounds urged for reversal are lhat (1) the appellee’s petition did not support the judgment and that (2) there should have been a directed verdict because (a) appellee did not trace the unbroken integrity of the deleterious product from appellant to appellee and because (b) the appellee was…