Medeiros v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for damages in the sum of $500 sustained by reason of personal injuries resulting from drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola manufactured by defendant.

Plaintiff’s complaint, which was in two counts, alleged in the first count that defendant was engaged in the business of bottling, selling and distributing Coca-Cola which it sold and distributed to various dealers for the purposes of resale to the general public; that plaintiff had purchased a bottle of Coca-Cola from a dealer in Stanislaus County, which had been bottled by defendant and sold…