Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Manion

The appellee, Ed Manion, brought this suit in the Jackson circuit court against the appellant, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., for damages, which he alleged he sustained on account of drinking from a bottle of Budweiser beer, put up, bottled and sold by the appellant, and that this drink contained a poisonous substance that made him violently ill within a few minutes; that he bought the beer in Jackson county, Arkansas, from a retail dealer. Summons was issued by the clerk of the circuit court of Jackson county, directed to the sheriff of Pulaski county, who served the same on John W. Newman, the agent…