Cordell v. Macon Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Mrs. Lenora McCook Cordell filed in the superior court of Twiggs County an action for damages against the Macon Coca-Cola Bottling Company, of Bibb County, as the manufacturer, and Dick Methvin, of Twiggs County, as the retail vendor of a bottle of coca-cola which, it was alleged, she drank with resultant injury because said bottle contained a partly-decomposed fly and was unfit for human consumption. The defendants denied liability, and on the trial the court granted a non-suit as to each defendant. On this judgment the plaintiff assigns error. It is conceded that if the court properly…