Henkel v. R AND BOTTLING CO.

SCHULTZ, Justice.

Plaintiffs, Richard E. and Christy M. Henkel, suing individually and on behalf of their one-year-old son (Richard, Jr.), appeal from the verdict and judgment in a products liability action against defendant, R and S Bottling Company. Plaintiffs’ claim for damages for an injury to their son — occasioned when an unopened bottle containing a carbonated beverage was broken, allegedly causing a fragment of glass to be propelled into the child’s eye — was denied. Plaintiffs assert three assignments of error. We find merit in one of them and reverse and remand for a new trial.

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