Hamilton

Trial court did not err by granting motion to dismiss a claim for declaratory judgment because a severance agreement expressly stated that it was the only agreement between the parties relating to any matter whatsoever. Accordingly, the trial court could not consider evidence of earlier agreements between the parties and the former employer could not establish any set of facts on which it could recover on a claim for declaratory judgment that the former employee remained bound by restrictive covenants contained in those earlier agreements.

The common pleas court erred in granting appellee's motion to compel arbitration where the merits of the grievance filed by appellee were already decided in a past arbitration and appellee is not entitled to have the matter resubmitted to arbitration because it missed the timeframe for requesting arbitration set forth in the parties' collective bargaining agreement.