Baker v. the Buschman Company

Koehler, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant William Baker appeals a judgment of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment to defendant-appellee, The Buschman Company. We affirm.

Appellant was an employee of appellee and is African-American. On the morning of December 2, 1993 at about 7:15 a.m., an incident occurred in the men’s rest room on appellee’s premises between appellant and Laszlo Feihinger, a white employee of appellee. Feihinger was a janitor for appellee. Appellant described the incident in his deposition as follows:

“I went over to the bathroom * * * [a]nd [Feihinger]…