Ruffin v. Coca Cola Bottling Co.

This is an action of tort to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained in circumstances described below. The case was tried to a jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and now comes before us on the defendant’s exception to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict in its favor.

*515The jury would have been warranted in finding the following facts. On August 2, 1938, “around seven o’clock in the evening,” the plaintiff went to “Kenny & McMurray’s Delicatessen Store” located on Main Street, in Woburn, for the purpose of buying a bottle of coca cola to drink. He had been in…