ROCKETT v. PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

No. 33776.

460 S.W.2d 737 (1970)

Wilhelmenia ROCKETT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, a Corporation, Defendant-Respondent.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

November 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Howard, Jr., St. Louis, for plaintiff-appellant.

Murphy & Kortenhof, George A. Adolf, St. Louis, for defendant-respondent.


DOWD, Judge.

This is a products liability case involving plaintiff's drinking of a foreign substance in a bottle of Teem soda. Plaintiff obtained a jury verdict against defendant for $2,200.00. The trial judge took away the judgment from the plaintiff by sustaining defendant's after trial motion for judgment in accordance with its motion for a directed verdict on the following ground stated in defendant's motion: "1. The plaintiff did not show by a preponderance of...

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