Rudolph v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

This action was tried in the Paterson District Court, without a jury, and judgment went for the plaintiff for $300.

The action was predicated upon defendant’s negligence in negligently permitting to be placed in its beverage, in a bottle, a foreign substance, i. e., a piece of suspender strap, which contaminated its product, and made the same so unwholesome and deleterious as to subject the plaintiff to sickness. The beverage was known as “Coca-Cola” and was sold to the retail trade for public consumption. The plaintiff, while drinking the fluid, noticed the illusive human appendage safely…