Opinion
No. 90-1557
Submitted April 24, 1991 —
Decided May 29, 1991.
Employer and employee — Discharge of at-will employee — Promissory estoppel claim will not survive a motion for summary judgment, when.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 56959.
Sindell, Rubenstein, Einbund, Pavlik, Novak Celebrezze and Lewis Einbund, for appellees.
Baker Hostetler, John H. Wilharm, Jr., Karen B. Newborn and Thomas F. Cooke II, for appellants.
Spater, Gittes, Schulte Kolman, Frederick M. Gittes and Louis A. Jacobs, urging affirmance for amici curiae, 9 to 5, Natl. Assn. of Working Women, and the Ohio Employment Lawyers Assn.
Vorys, Sater, Seymour Pease and James P. Friedt, urging reversal for amicus curiae, the Ohio Manufacturers' Assn.
After reviewing the facts of this case, this cause is reversed on authority of Helmick v. Cincinnati Word Processing, Inc. (1989), 45 Ohio St.3d 131, 543 N.E.2d 1212, and the judgment of the trial court is reinstated.
MOYER, C.J., HOLMES, WRIGHT, H. BROWN and RESNICK, JJ., concur.
SWEENEY and DOUGLAS, JJ., dissent.