A Civil Action Summary

In the film “A Civil Action” the plaintiffs case was based off of eyewitness testimonies and agricultural evidence. While Jan Schlichtmann was questioning current workers and old workers of the local tanneries it wasn't going his way until someone finally broke and confessed that he saw multiple employes pouring hazardous chemicals into the surrounding land. Using this information Jan hired people to plan out how, where and if the chemicals did indeed reach the wells that ended up contaminating the town's population. During the case Jan was offered multiple settlement deals but refused multiple times. The trial was long and costly so the judge decided to ask the jury a set of three questions, each of which were near impossible to answer. The