A Santa Rosa County jury has awarded a $37,495,930 to 28 Gulf Breeze residents impacted by what the law firm of Morgan and Morgan has billed the “2021 Midway water crisis.”
Filed by Morgan in Morgan on behalf of the homeowners, the lawsuit revolved around events that occurred around the first of April in 2021, when a crew working for Brown Construction at a home listed at 5000 Soundside Drive in Gulf Breeze tapped into Midway Water System’s water main and connected a city sewage line to a freshwater supply line.
The case went to trial Oct. 27 after the city of Gulf Breeze and Brown Construction had been dismissed as co-defendants along with Midway Water System. The trial lasted three weeks and included four days of deliberation. The jury found Midway to be 59% at fault, resulting in a net verdict of $22 million, a news release sent out by the law firm said…