Laurel Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Hankins

Mrs. Gladys Hankins obtained a judgment in the Circuit Court of Smith County against Laurel Coca Cola Bottling Company, a corporation, in the sum of $12,000, and the Bottling Company appealed.

The suit was a claim for damages, alleged to have been sustained by her as the result of drinking a portion *303of the contents of a coca cola. The gravamen of the complaint, for all practical purposes, is found in the following paragraph of the declaration to wit: “That this coca cola partially drank by plaintiff on April 3, 1952, in Smith County, Mississippi, contained a foreign substance known as ‘Acid…