Kosher Zion Sausage Co. of Chicago v. Roodman's, Inc.

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

Plaintiff (Kosher Zion) appeals from a $2,872 judgment on defendant’s (Roodman) counterclaim, challenging the sufficiency of Roodman’s evidence to establish an implied contract and also the propriety of Roodman's verdict-directing instructions. We affirm, finding the evidence sufficient and the instructions invulnerable to the attack made.

After twenty years of doing business together Kosher Zion, a Chicago manufac turer of kosher meat products, sued Rood-man, a St. Louis distributor, for its $5,882 account. Roodman admitted the account but went to trial on its two-count…