COCA COLA BOTTLING CO., INC. v. REEVES

No. 54416.

486 So.2d 374 (1986)

COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, INC. OF VICKSBURG v. Erek Damond Reeves, a Minor, by His Mother and Next Friend, Mrs. Shirley Reeves.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landman Teller, Jr., M. James Chaney, Jr., Teller, Chaney & Rector, Vicksburg, for appellant.

David W. Hall, Riley, Pintard & Hall, Natchez, for appellee.

En Banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court, on Parts I-VI; WALKER, Presiding Justice, for the Court, on Part VII:

I.

This products liability action finds a Coca Cola bottler charged with distributing a defective cardboard carton through the bottom of which a bottle fell, shattered, and severely injured one eye of a two year old bystander. The controversy on this appeal centers around the questions of (a) the content of the duty of Coca Cola's bottler and distributor...

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