Nelson v. Gas Research Institute

Plaintiff, Charles R. Nelson, appeals the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of defendants, Gas Research Institute and Gas Technology Institute (collectively GTI), and TICORA Geosciences, Inc. We affirm.

I. Background

GTI is an Illinois corporation. At the time of the events at issue here, Nelson was employed by GTI as Principal Project Manager, Geosciences. GTI, with Nelson’s assistance, set out to acquire a majority interest in TICORA, a Colorado company that provided coalbed methane gas resources and reservoir property evaluation services.

Before the acquisition was complete, GTI,…