The couple demands Jim for $ 1 million for lesions in shattered windows

San Antonio – A local couple is demanding Jim restaurants for more than $ 1 million in damage after a glass window crashed into their stand three years ago.

Catherine Anderson, 53, and her husband Chris, 47, testified on Thursday about the lasting pain after the incident on January 15, 2022 in the location of Jim Off Loop 410 and Broadway.

In their lawsuit, the couple accuses the restaurant (the three defendants appointed in the lawsuit are Frontier Enterprises, Inc., HassLocher Enterprises Inc. and the owner of the Lambeth Building Company facilities) of serious negligence for “not inspecting the facilities” , “allowing” allowing the window to break, “” Do not notice (Anderson) that the window could break “and” not repair and/or keep the window “, among other reasons.

During the emotional testimony, Catherine described the shame he felt struggling to have a stable job since his injury. By telling the jury that he is not the type of person to take a brochure, he says that he now feels “very inappropriate and guilty” that he cannot do what he could once to keep his family. “He was a very safe person before this,” he explained. “It was good in what I did.”

Before the accident, Catherine worked as an executive assistant in USAA. After the accident, he took a medical license and then lost his work in a round of layoffs shortly after returning to work, he said. He estimated that a total of 16 unemployed months has passed, with 4 jobs in two years. “It’s completely stressful,” he explained. “I feel inappropriate.”

They were around 11:30 in the morning when Catherine and Chris appeared to the Jim in 410 and Broadway. Catherine considered the location “My Old Jim’s”, which he had gone since he was young. She was about to enjoy an tortilla soup when her husband started shouting to get out of the cabin.

Suddenly, the glass window of the plate right next to your cabin was shattered.

They covered their heads, divered on the ground, with Catherine taking the worst part of the impact.

Catherine testified that she remembered “coming”, seeing blood and realizing that his body was covered with glass.

“I was terrified,” he said.

Catherine says she suffered neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, brain shock and PTSD.

His doctor has recommended neck fusion surgery, but he has clung to obtain it due to the cost and possibility of losing more work, he said.

Jim’s lawyers argue that many of these problems were pre -existing conditions. They walked to the jury through Catherine’s physiotherapy records, for shoulder pain, back pain, numbness of the hand, which were months before the accident.

When asked about physiotherapy prior to the accident during the interrogation, Catherine explained that these problems were related to long hours that write and placed their neck to use their phone while working from home at the end of 2021. However, explained the nature of Those problems. He did not prevent him from working, nor did they require surgery. The pain of the accident was different, he said.

Jim’s lawyers say they didn’t know that the window raised danger. They say that there is zero evidence of reckless contempt, and they emphasized that it was a lot of wind that day.

The lawyers of the Anderson’s lawyers ended the day pointing out that the window was installed in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was president.

There will be no trial on Friday or Monday, so the closing arguments should begin on Tuesday.