Ellwood Engineered Castings Co. v. Zaino

{¶ 1} Appellee and cross-appellant Ellwood Engineered Castings Company’s (“EEC”) primary business is manufacturing castings for the steel and automotive industries. The principal raw materials used by EEC are scrap ingot molds. When the scrap molds are received at EEC’s property, they are unloaded and stacked by a crane owned and operated by International Mill Service, Inc. (“IMS”), with whom EEC has contracted. IMS is paid on a tonnage basis for unloading the scrap molds, breaking them into pieces, and using its truck to deliver the pieces to an area designated by EEC.

{¶ 2} After the scrap…