White v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Plaintiff appealed from judgment rejecting her suit to recover damages sustained by her from the effects of drinking part of the contents of a bottle of Coca-Cola, a soft drink, allegedly contaminated, manufactured and sold by defendant. She alleged that on the morning of March 11, 1942, she purchased from J.W. Henry, who conducts a small retail store in Ouachita Parish, the bottle of Coca-Cola, and after swallowing a part of its contents detected various forms of foreign matter therein; that she immediately became ill, was taken to a clinic where the contents of her stomach were pumped out…