General Wholesale Beer Company v. Theodore Hamm Company

This diversity case from the Northern District of Georgia comes to us on appeal from a directed verdict granted to defendant-appellee after presentation of appellants’ case. Because there are issues of fact remaining for the jury we therefore reverse and remand on both the contract count and the fraud count for further proceedings.

The appellants 1 are interconnected corporations doing business as beer distributors in Georgia and Florida. Appellee and ap-pellee’s predecessor were brewers of beer. In May, 1973, standard form wholesale sales agreements were executed by appellants (exception…