Birmingham Chero-Cola Bottling Co. v. Clark
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard V. Evans, Judge. Action by W. G. Clark against tbe Birmingham Chero-Cola Bottling Company for damages for putting upon the market a drink in a bottle containing flies. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals, under section 6, Acts 1911, p. 449. Amended count 1 is as follows: First count.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard V. Evans, Judge. Action by W. G. Clark against tbe Birmingham Chero-Cola Bottling Company for damages for putting upon the market a drink in a bottle containing flies. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals, under section 6, Acts 1911, p. 449. Amended count 1 is as follows: First count. The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum' $5,000 as damages, for that, heretofore, on, to wit, May 10, 1919, and prior thereto, the defendant was engaged in the business of bottling a soft drink known as…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
The question involved upon this appeal is whether or not this defendant, who prepared and put upon the market a bottle of beverage, purchased by the plaintiff from an intermediate dealer, and who was made sick from drinking same, because it contained a fly, can recover in an action ex contractu as for the breach of an implied warranty, or is confined to an action of tort for negligence.
[1] The warranty of the seller of personal property does not, as a rule, impose any liability upon him as to third persons who are in no way a party to the contract. 24 R. C. L. p. 158, § 431. The common-law…
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- Blood Balm Co. v. CooperSupreme Court of Georgia · 1889
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