Buell, Winter, Mousel & Associates, Inc. v. Olmsted & Perry Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Appellee, Buell, Winter, Mousel & Associates, Inc., sued the appellants, Olmsted & Perry Consulting Engineers, Inc., James J. Olmsted, and Steven W. Perry, alleging that the individual appellants formed the corporate appellant, Olmsted & Perry, and, while still employed by Buell, enticed some of their employer’s clients into becoming clients of the newly formed corporate appellant. The district court determined that appellants had breached their duty of loyalty to Buell and sustained Buell’s motion for summary judgment on that issue. Following a trial on the issue of damages, the district…