Their Love Clears the Bottleneck

A settlement has been reached in a damage suit filed by a Coca-Cola bottling company worker who claimed she was fired after falling in love with a Pepsi employee.

Attorneys for both sides declined comment Monday on the details of the agreement, except to say the settlement was “satisfactory to all parties.”

Amanda Cronin, 30, of Northampton, who was then Amanda Blake, sought $600,000 damages from the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northampton in 1985.

She claimed in her Hampshire Superior Court suit that the company told her she either had to break off her engagement to David Cronin, who had left Coke to work for Pepsi, persuade him to quit his job with the competitor, or quit herself.

She contended she was fired when she declined to give up her future husband or the job she had held for eight years.

Her attorney, Mark Berson, said Amanda Cronin now works in the data processing department of Mount Holyoke College.