A law suit based on an alleged Kashruth misdemeanor opened here yesterday at the court house, when Isaac Berkman, butcher, asked $50,000 damages from Wilson & Company and Martin Grant, Syracuse manager for the corporation. The plaintiff charged that his business was ruined when the defendant sold him non-kosher meat, representing it to be kosher.
Last August the local rabbinical court prosecuted Berkman at a public trial and exposed him for selling non-kosher meat that was labeled kosher. As a result, Berkman claims, he was held up to shame and disgrace before his friends, customers and the public, his business was ruined and he has suffered humiliation and mental, physical and spiritual anguish.
The trial, the first of its kind in this city, drew a capacity audience.
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