Chero-Cola Bottling Co., Etc. v. Watford

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Ira W. Watford sued the Chero-Cola Bottling Company, Andalusia, Alabama, for damages, alleging that he sustained certain personal injuries as a result of drinking a Royal-Crown Cola it is alleged that defendant bottled and distributed to the retail trade for human consumption. The plaintiff claimed that the' defendant negligently permitted unwholesome, poisonous, foreign matter to be in the beverage which plaintiff claims he purchased from a retail merchant, one Griffin, and as a proximate consequence plaintiff was made sick and developed stomach trouble.

There was a…