Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Johnson

THAGARD, Presiding Judge.

This is a run of the mill bug-in-a-bottle case, except that it appeared to be a worm instead of a bug.

The testimony for the plaintiff was to the effect that the plaintiff, while a patient in a tuberculosis ward at the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital, bought one of defendant’s bottles of Coca-Cola from a vending machine maintained by defendant in said ward; drank a portion of the same; felt some foreign object touch his mouth; looked into the bottle and discovered a foreign object that looked like a worm in a partial state of decomposition; became violently…