A $10.5 million verdict in a Ware County asbestos case came from particularly sympathetic plaintiffs or an “uneducated” jury and an inexperienced judge, depending on which side’s lawyer is telling the story.
The verdict, issued July 14 after a monthlong trial, favored 70-year-old Roy Knight, a retired sheet metal and maintenance worker suffering from a fatal lung disease, and his wife, Milva, a retired school teacher.
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