Baldassarre v. Rare Metals Derivatives, Inc.

Opinion by

Ms. Justice O’Brien,

Appellees, Alex P. Baldassarre and Edward C. Mesiti, are research chemists. Around the middle of 1983, while both chemists were in the employ of different companies, Ogden FitzSimons, a chemical engineer, arranged a meeting between Mesiti and William G. Singer, Jr., president of Bare Metals Derivatives, Inc. (Bare Metals), at FitzSimons’ office, for the purpose of discussing employment of Mesiti and his friend, Baldassarre, by Rare Metals. At that meeting, it was agreed that the corporation would initially employ Baldassarre and Mesiti would not join the…