Castles Auto & Truck Serv., Inc. v. Exxon Corp.

ELR Citation: ELR 20037
No(s). 00-1453 et al (4th Cir. Aug 2, 2001)

The court holds that a district court properly denied an oil company's request for a new trial in a case concerning the company's petroleum pollution of a neighbor's property but that it erred in failing to award the neighbor prejudgment interest. At trial the jury returned a verdict finding that th...