Jackson Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Chapman

Citations

• 106 Miss. 864
• 64 So. 791

Syllabus

<p>Food. Bottled beverages. Injurious foreign substances. Liability of manufacturer.</p> <p>When a mannufacturer makes, bottles and sells to the retail dealer, to be again sold to the general public, a beverage represented to be refreshing and harmless, he is under a legal duty to see to it that, in the process of bottling, no foreign substance shall be mixed with the beverage, which, if taken into the human constitution, will-be injurious. And this duty the bottler owes to the general public for whom these drinks are intended as well as -to the retailer, to whom he sells.</p>