Orbit Electronics, Inc. v. Helm Instrument Co.

Colleen Conway Cooney, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} In this consolidated appeal, defendant/third-party plaintiff-appellant, Helm Instrument Co., Inc. (“Helm”), appeals the trial court’s decision granting directed verdicts in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Orbit Electronics, Inc. (“Orbit”) and third-party defendant-appellee, Donald Wcislek. Finding no merit to the appeal, we affirm the court’s judgment but modify the order involving sanctions.

{¶ 2} Helm is an Ohio-based company that builds process controls and factory automation systems. For 34 years, Wcislek was employed as Helm’s purchasing agent,…