BESS v. WAFFLE HOUSE, INC.

2000215.

824 So.2d 783 (2001)

Michele Spitzner BESS v. WAFFLE HOUSE, INC. Waffle House, Inc. v. Michele Spitzner Bess.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

December 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gina D. Coggin of Rhea, Boyd, Rhea & Coggin, Gadsden, for appellant/cross-appellee Michele Spitzner Bess.

David M. Wilson and Jonathan L. Berryhill of Janecky Newell, P.C., Birmingham, for appellee/cross-appellant Waffle House.


PITTMAN, Judge.

Michele Spitzner Bess was performing her duties in the course of her employment for a Waffle House restaurant on March 6, 1998, when she was injured while placing meat into a lower freezer drawer. After she placed the meat in the drawer she stood up, striking her back on the open refrigerator door. As a result of the incident, Bess sustained a bruise and subsequently developed myofascial-pain syndrome and psychological infirmities, including depression...

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