Wellman Engineering Co. v. Calderon Automation, Inc.

195 N.E.2d 568, 93 Ohio Law. Abs. 549, 29 Ohio Op. 2d 95, 1964 Ohio App. LEXIS 632
CourtOhio Court of Appeals
DecidedJanuary 2, 1964
DocketNo. 26349
StatusPublished
Cited by3 cases

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Wellman Engineering Co. v. Calderon Automation, Inc., 195 N.E.2d 568, 93 Ohio Law. Abs. 549, 29 Ohio Op. 2d 95, 1964 Ohio App. LEXIS 632 (Ohio Ct. App. 1964).

Opinion

Per Curiam.

Appeal is made to this court on questions of law and fact from a decree and judgment entered for the plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County. The action is one for injunction, accounting and other relief. The court below granted injunctive relief to plaintiff and also entered a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for the sum of $120,000.00 pursuant to certain conclusions of fact and law. Conclusion of law No. 7 as found by that court reads in part as follows:

“* * * Armco, Ford and Alliance are not parties to this lawsuit and it would not be practical to enjoin the completion of the present contracts pertaining to Alliance, Armco and Ford; and, in lieu of injunctive relief pertaining to said contracts, the Court ascertains and awards substitutional redress in money for the injury and damages already done, without prejudice to further claims of plaintiff for equitable relief and damages arising out of other or further breaches of the aforesaid Agreement, as amended, by the defendant, the aggregate sum of $120,000.00, for which judgment in favor of plaintiff and against the defendant is hereby rendered.”

A stipulation of parties was entered into in this court on May 6, 1963, to the following effect:

[552]*552“It is stipulated by and between the parties that, for the purpose of hearing and determining this cause on appeal on questions of law and fact, the evidence shall consist of the testimony given in the Common Pleas Court in this cause, as shown by pages 4 through 517 of the Transcript of the proceedings in the Common Pleas Court, all of which shall be subject to the objections of the respective parties, as shown by such Transcript.
“It is further stipulated and agreed between the parties that all motions made and exceptions taken in the course of the proceedings in the Common Pleas Court, as disclosed by the transcript of proceedings, shall be considered as having been made and renewed in this Court.”

In its petition, Wellman Engineering Company, an Ohio corporation, sets out, inter alia, that on January 14, 1958, it entered into a written agreement with defendant, Calderon Automation, Inc., also an Ohio corporation, which granted to Wellman for valuable consideration as Licensee for a term of years ending January 1, 1975, the sole and exclusive right to manufacture certain equipment for charging iron or steel-making furnaces with scrap and that applications for United States Letters Patent for such equipment had been assigned to the defendant corporation. The inventor of these methods and equipment is Albert Calderon, the president and principal shareholder of Calderon Automation, Inc. This 1958 agreement replaced a 1954 agreement between Wellman and the predecessor to the rights of Calderon Automation, Inc. in the inventions and patent applications.

It is further alleged that in the 1958 License Agreement the parties further agreed as follows:

“Defendant Calderon will obtain from Wellman, and from no other source, equipment of the kind with which the agreement is concerned, except as thereinafter set forth.
“Defendant Calderon will keep plaintiff Wellman advised with respect to any inquiries from prospective purchasers of any of the equipment with which the Agreement is concerned.
“Defendant Calderon, in the event that it proposes to enter into a contract with a prospctive purchaser to sell and deliver any such equipment to such purchaser, shall inform plaintiff Wellman as to the requirements of the prospective purchaser [553]*553and tbe terms of any proposed agreement between defendant Calderon and the prospective purchaser.
“Plaintiff Wellman, on request, shall furnish to defendant Calderon a quotation of Wellman’s price for manufacturing the equipment involved and the terms of payment. The estimated price is to he determined by taking Wellman’s estimate of the cost of manufacturing the equipment (including the detailed engineering involved, the fabricating and assembling of the equipment, the erection thereof by Wellman or by a subcontractor and all work incidental thereto, which is the sum of material costs), plus Wellman’s usual charges for labor and burden plus an item equal to 38 percent of labor and burden plus the cost, if any, of erection by a subcontractor, this sum to be divided by 85/100ths. The quoted price can be changed to reflect increases in material or labor costs, or burden, applied as set forth in the foregoing formula.
“Plaintiff Wellman is to inform defendant Calderon as to the probable time for completion of its engineering, manufacturing and erecting operations with respect to such equipment; defendant Calderon to make prompt delivery of layout drawings approved by the purchaser under any specific order.
“Defendant Calderon shall negotiate with a prospective purchaser with a view to obtaining a definite order for equipment involved at a price not less than the price quoted by plaintiff Wellman, and defendant Calderon and Wellman shall negotiate with respect to the detailed provisions of the contract between them respecting the proposed order.
“Plaintiff Wellman and defendant Calderon, realizing that Wellman cannot obligate itself to accept all orders from Calderon, and further realizing that numerous details in contracts between defendant Calderon and prospective purchasers, and in contracts between plaintiff Wellman and defendant Calderon, under the 1958 License Agreement will have to be arrived at by agreement in the light of the particular requirements of the prospective purchasers, and the then prevailing economic and other conditions, will negotiate with each other in good faith in order that they may each obtain the maximum amount of benefit from the inventions constituting the subject matter of the 1958 License Agreement and the business available. In the [554]*554event that they are nnable to agree upon the terms and conditions of any proposed contract between them for the manufacture by plaintiff Wellman of any particular item of equipment for defendant Calderon, or if plaintiff Wellman should decline to accept an order from defendant Calderon for any particular item of equipment, defendant Calderon shall be free to obtain such item from any other manufacturer, provided that it shall pay plaintiff Wellman a royalty in the amount of five percent of the total price paid by defendant Calderon for such equipment, and provided that when the royalties so paid shall aggregate $33,000, no further royalty payments need be made.
“Before plaintiff Wellman begins to manufacture equipment ordered under the 1958 License Agreement, defendant Caldron is required to furnish plaintiff Wellman evidence satisfactory to it of receipt by defendant Calderon of an order from a prospective purchaser, defendant Calderon not being required, however, to inform plaintiff Wellman as to the price paid by the purchaser. Plaintiff Wellman, when so required by defendant Calderon, is to furnish defendant Calderon a complete set of drawings for approval by defendant Calderon.
“Upon completion of any equipment, plaintiff Wellman is to furnish defendant Calderon a complete set of drawings of the equipment.

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