NEWPORT NEWS COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. v. BABB


57 S.E.2d 41 (1950)

190 Va. 360

NEWPORT NEWS COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. v. BABB.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 16, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Ford, Newport News, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas A. Williams, L. C. O'Connor, Richmond, Charles H. Gordon, Hampton, for defendant in error.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and GREORY, EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, STAPLES, and MILLER, JJ.


SPRATLEY, Justice.

This is another case in which recovery is sought against a bottling company for injury alleged to have been suffered by drinking from a bottle of Coca-Cola which contained obnoxious foreign matter.

We have twice recently in Norfolk Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc., v. Land, 189 Va. 35, 52 S.E.2d 85, and Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Norfolk v. McCullers, 189 Va. 89, 52 S.E.2d 257, stated the rules for determining the liability of the bottler...

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