Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Arkansas v. Jordan

The appellee brought suit in the Conway Circuit Court alleging that in August, 1531, he purchased a bottle of Coca-Cola which contained a decayed or rotten cockroach; that the appellant negligently and ■carelessly caused to be sold in the regular course of trade the bottle of Coca-Cola which contained the decayed cockroach.

Appellee drank part of the contents of the bottle before he discovered the cockroach. As the result of drinking part of the contents, he became a victim of ptomaine poison, from which he suffered, and is still suffering, and will suffer to some extent the rest of his life.

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