ELR Citation: ELR 20257
No(s). COA06-1016 (N.C. Ct. App. Oct 2, 2007)

North Carolina's appellate court reversed and remanded a jury's award of $500,000 in compensatory and punitive damages to the owner of a well whose water was contaminated with gasoline due to leaking underground storage tanks at a nearby gasoline station. The trial court failed to instruct the jury ...