Alabama Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Causey

SAMFORD, Judge.

The suit in-this case is by the ultimate consumer of a bottle of Coca-Cola against the bottling company for personal injuries, claiming damages as the result of the negligence of defendant -in allowing to be sealed up in a bottle, from which plaintiff- drank a part of the contents, “a metal or metallic substance, or other foreign dead matter, rriaking it. nauseating, sickening and dangerous to persons consuming and drinking said beverage.”

The evidence for the plaintiff tended to prove that she drank two swallows from a bottle of Coca-Cola, bottled and capped by the defendant…