Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Ark. v. Cordell

This action was begun by the appellee in the Jackson Circuit Court. The complaint stated that on April 18, 1931, the appellee, purchased from the Cash Service Station, Newport, Arkansas, a bottle of Coca-Cola which had been manufactured and delivered to said Cash Service Station by the appellant. It was alleged that, instead of being wholesome and fit for human consumption, said bottle of Coca-Cola so purchased had been negligently bottled by the appellant, and was unwholesome, poisonous, and wholly unfit for use, in that it contained a decomposed foreign substance, poisonous and deleterious,…