Parnell v. Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola, which was appellant’s product, respondent got into his mouth a decomposed cockroach. He removed it and spat out such of the drink as remained in his mouth. He immediately became nauseated, went to his home two blocks away and vomited. His wife dosed him with peptobismuth which did not relieve him/ and he set out alone to find a doctor. He had no telephone and his wife could not accompany him because she was keeping their baby. He went to the offices of three doctors but it was late in the afternoon and none was in. Making the rounds of the offices, he vomited…