OKLAHOMA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. v. DILLARD

No. 35252.

208 Okla. 126 (1953)

253 P.2d 847

OKLAHOMA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. v. DILLARD.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rittenhouse, Hanson & Evans, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.

Howard K. Berry and James W. (Bill) Berry, Oklahoma City, for defendant in error.


HALLEY, V.C.J.

Jessie Dillard sued Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Safeway Stores, Inc., for damages for mental and physical pain and suffering alleged to have been the result of drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola which contained a dead Oriental cockroach, which insect in turn contained certain poisonous insecticides which contaminated the contents of the bottle, made her acutely ill, and resulted in a major abdominal operation.

Plaintiff alleged that...

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