Berk v. Gordon Johnson Company

FREEMAN, District Judge.

This is a motion for summary judgment by the defendant Gordon Johnson Company as to an action for breach of warranty in a suit by the plaintiffs, Lawrence Berk and Eugene Brownstein.

In 1961, Berk and Brownstein were copartners doing business as the Morris Poultry Company, and were engaged in the business of butchering and merchandising poultry, at wholesale, for kosher poultry markets in the Detroit area. They conducted their business in accordance with the laws of ritual slaughter prescribed by the Jewish faith. The actual slaughter and processing of the poultry was…