Fields v. Summit Engineering

This is an appeal from a judgment issued by the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, denying appellant’s claim for engineering notes and other documents which he compiled while working for respondent and claimed were part of his personal files.

Tom Fields, appellant, was employed by respondent, Summit Engineering, to write technical manuals based on notes he had taken on various electrical projects. Fields claims that some of these notes were made for his educational purposes during overtime and are therefore his personal property.

Summit Engineering claims that…