Jackaline Lansing, a 73-year-old woman from the small town of Rosseau, Ontario, had no idea a simple stop at a coffee shop with her sister would send her to the hospital with second-degree burns and leave her permanently scarred.
Lansing has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against coffee chain Tim Hortons, alleging she suffered burns and permanent scarring on her stomach and legs from a cup of tea she ordered at the drive-through of a Tim Hortons restaurant in Huntsville, Ontario, on May 18, 2022.
Lansing’s lawyer Gavin Tighe, of Toronto’s Gardiner Roberts LLP, provided The Epoch Times on March 20 with a copy of the filed Statement of Claim from December 2022, as well as a Statement of Defence—filed by the Tim Horton’s primary leaseholder, TDL Group Corp., and Greenwood Enterprises, the operator of the restaurant….