It is also in the public interest that employees obey the law, so at-will employees cannot be fired for refusing to break the law at the employer's direction. In Sargent v. Central National Bank & Trust (1991), the termination of a bank auditor was found to be a wrongful discharge because he was fired for refusing an order to destroy or alter an audit report. The general rule was established in Shaffer v. Frontrunner, Inc. (1990), when the Ohio Court of Appeals said, "There is an exception to the at-will employment doctrine…for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.