CAMERON, Circuit Judge.
Appellee Thomassie brought this action against appellant Assurance Corporation to recover damages for injury to his eye occasioned by the explosion of a bottle of beer he was handling. The beer had been bottled by Jax Brewery, and appellant is its insurance carrier. The trial judge, sitting without a jury, concluded that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applied; and, largely on the authority of Ortego v. Nehi Bottling Works, 1942, 199...
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