Johnson v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

By agreement and stipulation of the parties this case was tried before the Honorable E. H. Green, Circuit Judge, on December 10, 1959, without a jury. The plaintiff relied upon the maxim res ipsa loquitur for her cause of action. At the conclusion of all of the testimony on behalf of the plaintiff, which fully disclosed that neither she nor anyone else had been guilty of any negligence in regard to the handling of the bottle of Coca-Cola which exploded and injured her, at any time between its delivery by the appellee to the restaurant where she worked and the time it exploded and injured her…