CHICAGO -- A man was awarded $475,000 in damages from the Chicago Cubs on Monday for a lawsuit stemming from a melee that broke out in the Wrigley Field stands over three years ago.

A Cook County jury sided with Ronald Camacho in the lawsuit he filed against the Cubs roughly 10 months after he was mobbed by visiting Los Angeles Dodgers players and arrested for disorderly conduct, said Gregory Adamski, Camacho's attorney.

The fight, in May 2000, broke out after a fan grabbed the cap of Dodgers catcher Chad Kreuter and ran off with it. Kreuter gave chase, and several teammates followed him into the stands.

Camacho made a comment to Kreuter who responded by choking the construction worker, Adamski said.

The lawsuit accused the Cubs of malicious prosecution. Camacho was acquitted of criminal charges in December 2000 by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Marvin Luckman.

"You watch the Cubs security pulling these people off of Camacho,'' Adamski said of a videotape of the fight. "When they get to the bottom, there's Camacho who's been attacked, and they arrest him.''

Cubs officials and an attorney for the team did not immediately return phone calls Monday seeking comment.

Camacho settled a lawsuit against the Dodgers claiming neck injury for $300,000 in January 2001.