A Palm Beach County jury Friday awarded some 22,000 Palm Beach County homeowners—whose trees were chopped down by the state in a citrus canker eradiction program—a total of $19.2 million in damages plus interest.
The verdict represents $289 for each of the 66,493 trees chopped down—close to what the plaintiffs were asking for in the 15-year-long class action lawsuit.
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