Mitchell v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Appeal from a judgment of the Rensselaer County Court which reversed a judgment of the Troy City Court for the appellants in the amount of $255. These actions were brought for damages sustained as a result of the infant appellant drinking some Coca-Cola containing a foreign substance and were tried before the Troy City Court sitting without a jury. Evidence was produced from which it could be found that the infant opened a bottle of Coca-Cola, drank some, felt something in her throat which she pulled out and which was some kind of insect. She vomited then and again a half hour later, was…