Burnette v. Augusta Coca Cola Bottling Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

Tort action, tried in the Court of Common Pleas for Aiken County, before Hon. M. E. Bonham, presiding Judge, and a jury. Verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant, the respondent here; appeal by the plaintiff.

The appellant alleged that the respondent, engaged in the wholesale bottling business, sold a certain bottle of coca-cola to the Seminole Mills store, a retailer, which the appellant purchased for drinking purposes; that the beverage contained some putrid, poisonous, and unwholesome vegetable or animal matter (most probably…