Jacob Ruppert v. Jernstedt Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

Plaintiff sued to recover the price of beer sold and delivered; and defendant counter-claimed for damages resulting from the breach of an asserted contract whereby plaintiff constituted defendant the “distributor” of its beer products in the counties of Monmouth and Ocean, in this state, and undertook to supply defendant with “bottled and keg beer in whatever quantities needed or ordered,” deliveries to begin April 7th, 1933. Defendant bound itself to purchase exclusively from plaintiff all such merchandise “needed for sales and distribution”…