Judge rules e-mails show Scott's backed Kentucky Bluegrass bonus

After hearing more than an hour of arguments May 3, Superior Judge David Frazier ruled evidence in the Millhorn Kentucky Bluegrass suit indicated Scotts Company executives had authorized a 20 cent per pound price bump which was offered to growers as an incentive to contract for seed production.

The judge ruled e-mail messages between Scotts agents and employees of Seeds Inc., Tekoa, qualified as undisputed evidence that Scotts had authorized the 20-cent bump in Kentucky Bluegrass contracts as an incentive to sign growers before May of 2008.

Scotts attorney Kevin Folawn of Seattle had argued Sc...