Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Dillard

HALLEY, V.C.J.

Jessie Dillard sued Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Safeway Stores, Inc., for damages for mental and physical pain and suffering alleged to have been the result of drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola which contained a dead Oriental cockroach, which insect in turn contained certain poisonous insecticides which contaminated the contents of the bottle, made her acutely ill, and resulted in a major abdominal operation.

Plaintiff alleged that the defendant bottlingj company processed, bottled, and securely capped the bottle of Coca-Cola which she drank and advertised it as a…