Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Sellers

HARWOOD, Judge.

The appellee, Ethel Sellers, filed her complaint against the “Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Birmingham, a corporation,” charging negligence in the bottling and selling of a beverage known as Coca-Cola containing a deleterious substance, i. e., a cockroach or bug of some kind.

The original complaint was amended by striking from defendant’s name the words “of Birmingham, a corporation,” and by adding after the words “Coca-Cola Bottling Company,” the words “a partnership composed of Crawford Johnson, Jr., Allen A. Johnson, et ais., and Crawford Johnson, Inc., a corporation.”

The…