Ferrell v. Sikeston Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

STONE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from the judgment for $1,000 entered upon the jury verdict for plaintiff, then nineteen years of age, the proprietress of a beauty shop in Charleston, Missouri, for injuries sustained on September 1, 1956, when a bottle of coca-cola exploded in her left hand, as she was placing the bottle in an upright refrigerated cooler in her beauty shop.

Plaintiff’s business was conducted in a large room, fronting toward the north and divided by an east-and-west partition (not extending to the ceiling) into the beauty shop area in the front, about forty feet by…