Remember that old lady who sued and won some unspeakable amount of money
after
she spilled McDonald's coffee on herself, then became a symbol of the
out-of-control plaintiffs bar?
Young Jeromy Jackson seeks to supplant her. The Record, "West Virginia's
legal
journal," re****ts on Jeromy's lawsuit against the Golden Arches, in which
he
seeks $10 million in damages:
Jackson, his mother Trela Jackson and his friend Andrew Ellifritz
filed a suit July 18 in Monongalia Circuit Court against the
popular fast-food chain because Jeromy Jackson is allergic to
cheese.
According to the suit, Jackson, his mother and friend went to
the drive-thru at the McDonald's on Chaplin Road in Morgantown
on Oct. 30, 2005. Jackson claims he ordered two "Quarter Pounders"
without cheese, stating he was allergic to cheese.
"From this point forward, Mr. Jackson repeatedly asked as to the
status of his food and whether it had no cheese, and took multiple
preventive steps to assure his food did not contain cheese," the
suit says.
The suit says Jackson received his food, bit into one of his
sandwiches and immediately began to have a severe allergic
reaction.
So apparently the "multiple preventive steps" he took "to assure his food
did
not contain cheese" did not include LOOKING AT THE DAMN SANDWICH BEFORE
EATING
IT!
Food allergies are no laughing matter. If Jeromy is as severely allergic
as he
says, and if he really is this careless about what he eats, he may not
survive
long enough for the case to go to trial.
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