Wilson v. Key Tronic Corporation

Spokane County and Key Tronic Corporation appeal a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding five plaintiffs $308,950 1 damages, $73,805 attorney fees, and $2,022.99 costs based on an action arising from disposal of chemicals at the Spokane County landfill. We affirm.

From 1973 until 1976 Key Tronic Corporation, a manufacturer of computer keyboards, disposed of a cleaning byproduct containing 1-1-1 trichloroethane (1-1-1) at the Mica landfill in Spokane county. In 1975, at the request of the County, Key Tronic began disposing of the substance at the County landfill at Colbert and continued…