Hobbs v. Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

Plaintiff brought this action for the recovery of damages alleged to have been suffered by him as a direct and proximate result of drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola manufactured by the defendant, which contained some “vile and/or poisonous, and/or polluted, foul, contaminated, and/or revolting substance or substances therein, which resembled and/or appeared to be decayed cockroaches, and/or other bugs, and/or varmints and/or foul and unwholesome substances or materials, animal, vegetable, and/or mineral.”

At the trial of the case the…