Goux v. Baton Rouge Coca Cola Bottling Co.

PUTNAM, Judge ad hoc.

This is an appeal by defendants, Baton Rouge Coca Cola Bottling Company, Ltd., and its insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, from a judgment of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court awarding plaintiff, Albert Goux, the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries allegedly incurred by him when struck by a case of .empty Coca Cola bottles being removed from Farrar’s Parking Lot in the City of Baton Rouge. Trial was before a jury in the lower Court, and the amount awarded plaintiff is the chief item in dispute here.

Plaintiff Goux was seated next to the door to the…