Washington Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc. v. Eula A. Tawney

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

Appellee was awarded a jury verdict of $5,500 for personal injuries, and special damages incurred and anticipated, caused by fragments of a coca-cola bottle introduced into appellee’s system while she was drinking a beverage bottled and sold by the appellant.

The trial court admitted in evidence under the so-called Federal Shop Book, Rule, 1 entries in the medical records kept by a group of physicians, which concerned appellee’s condition as observed by one of the physicians subsequent to the time when appellee drank the beverage. These entries included statements as to…