Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Jenkins

The appellee named in the caption filed his suit against the appellant in the circuit court of St. .Francis County on June 1, 1934, for $5,000 damages, which he alleged he sustained from drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola, bought by him from S. B. Warren on Highway No. 70 near Proctor, Arkansas, and that the bottle contained a decomposed or rotten cockroach or some other bug or insect; that the contents were unfit for the use for which it was manufactured; alleged also that the appellant had failed to give proper inspection to discover the deleterious matter, and that, on account of the…