Lionel M. Barbeau, Jr. v. Roddy Manufacturing Company, Lionel M. Barbeau, Jr. v. White Stores, Inc.

PECK, Circuit Judge.

These combined appeals were perfected by the two District Court defendants, the bottler and retail seller of a bottle of Coca-Cola which “exploded” in the hands of the plaintiff-appellee.

On January 29, 1968, the plaintiff-ap-pellee (hereinafter “the plaintiff”), who was at that time a student at the University of Tennessee, purchased from the defendant-appellant White Stores, Inc. (“White Stores”) a six bottle carton of Coca-Cola which had been bottled and distributed to White Stores by the defendant-appellant Roddy Manufacturing Company (“Roddy”). Some four days later,…