Welsh v. Gibbons

Oxner, Justice:

This is an action to recover damages on .account of illness alleged to have resulted from drinking a small portion of a bottle of coca-cola which contained “so■dium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, caustic soda or con■centrated lye, or some other foreign, poisonous and deleteri ous substance.” Plaintiff alleged that said coca-cola was bottled and sold by the defendant and that the presence of said harmful, poisonous and deleterious matter was due to his negligence and wilfulness. The defendant denied the material allegations of the complaint. The trial resulted in a verdict for…