US resident claim damages on Pepsi after finding small mouse inside Mountain Dew can
January 05, 2012 02:19
A US resident of Illinois, Ronald Ball filed a Lawsuit on Pepsi in the year 2009 as he found a tiny mouse body inside his Mountain Dew can.
But Pepsi has given a astonishing argument that Ronald Ball would never have known that mouse had been in his can because it would have mixed into jelly. Ronald Ball says in 2009 he bought the Moutain Dew can from a vending machine at work, and while pouring the drink into a styrofoam cup, he found to his shock when a tiny mouse came out.
Ball alleges the Mountain Dew that he drank made him violently ill, and he began throwing up.
Ball, of Madison County, when he called a telephone number printed on the can to complain, they sent an adjuster to retrieve the mouse.
But, Ball said, the company would not return the mouse until it had decomposed, ruling out additional testing by the plaintiff.Since then, the case has gone to court and Pepsi has moved to dismiss it.
According to reports, Pepsi's expert says the mouse would have become a 'jelly like' substance long before Ball ever opened it.
The case was continued by Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth, who granted the defendant 28 days to answer or otherwise plead the plaintiff's second amended complaint.
A trial had been set to begin November 28, but was put back in an order signed by Judge Ruth on November 10.
On November 21 a second amended complaint was then filed.
As Ronald Ball looking for the compensation in overabundance of $50,000,As Pepsi, represented by lawyers Steven Danekas and Cassiday Schade, declines his demands.