Claxton Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Coleman

This was a suit by E. Z. Coleman against the Olaxton Coca-Cola Bottling Company and H. D. Davis for damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff as a result of his drinking a portion of a bottle of unclean and polluted coca-cola. It was alleged that the plaintiff purchased from the defendant Davis at his place of business a bottle of coca-cola which was manufactured and bottled by the bottling company, and that when he opened the bottle and drank a portion of the contents thereof he discovered that there was something wrong with it, and upon examination found that the bottle of…