Coca-Cola Co. v. Williams
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fifth Supreme Judicial District. Action by Lurena Williams and others against the Coca-Cola Company. There was a judgment for plaintiffs, which was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (164 S. W. 1032), and the defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSonfield, P. J.
Gardner Williams was in the employ of the Coca-Cola Company as a common laborer. It was his duty to help cook and mix the ingredients used in the manufacture of Coca-Cola. The ingredients so used were not designated by name but by number. A barrel had been partially filled with a mixture styled “7-X”'; this mixture was a combination of two ingredients known as Nos. 7 and 9. No one in the plant except the manager and Van Winkle, the foreman, knew the properties of “7-X.” The other employes knew of but one of the ingredients in the mixture. The barrel containing the “7-X” was of oak, regular…
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