Cooper v. Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp.

Christley, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from several judgments entered by the Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas in the lawsuit filed by appellee/crossappellant William C. Cooper against his former employer, Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, appellanVcross-appellee.

In August 1989, appellant hired appellee as an interstate truck driver. At that time, appellee had been a truck driver for over twenty years, and was hired as an at-will employee at appellant’s Jefferson, Ohio facility. 1 At the time of appellee’s employment, he was one of approximately seven truck…