ELR Citation: ELR 20177
No(s). s. 87-1502, -2283 (10th Cir. Sep 28, 1988)

The court upholds the award of compensatory and punitive damages for tort claims based on salt contamination of irrigation water supplies. Farmers claimed that a neighboring salt manufacturing plant had added excessive levels of salt to the groundwater used by the farmers for irrigation. The court f...