Jasper Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Roberts

WRIGHT, Judge.

On July 26, 1963, Laura Roberts, appellee here, plaintiff below, purchased a bottled Coca-Cola at a grocery store in Oakman, Alabama. She opened the bottle by using the opener provided for that purpose on the side of the cooling container. After taking a swallow from the bottle and finding it tasted soapy she looked in the bottle and saw that it contained cigarette stubs, tobacco and match sticks. Shortly thereafter she became violently nauseated. She left the store without buying all of her groceries, and upon reaching the street vomited heavily into a garbage can. In the act…