Coca-Cola Bottling Works v. Shelton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

While Miss Alice Shelton, an infant, was engaged in cooling bottles of soft drinks in a tank of ice water, a coca-cola bottle exploded, its jagged edges striking her on the wrist and severing the extensor tendons of the four fingers of her right hand, practically destroying their usefulness.

In a suit by her. next friend against the Coco-Cola Bottling Works she recovered a judgment for $1,250.00. Defendant appeals and insists that the court erred in not directing a verdict in its favor.

The injury occurred about one o’clock in the afternoon of…