Abernathy v. Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Jackson

STONE, Judge.

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff, then sixty-three years of age, about 9:30 A.M. on Saturday, July 23, 1960, by reason of the alleged explosion of a bottle of strawberry soda pop in Hopkins Brothers self-service supermarket in the Lutesville-Marble Hill area of Bollinger County. Plaintiff sued and went to trial against both the bottler, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Jackson, Missouri, and the retailer, Hopkins Brothers, but at the close of her case plaintiff voluntarily dismissed as to the retailer. The jury returned a ten-man verdict for $2,500…