Waffle House Grease Smothered And Covered Property, Lawsuit Claims
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man says in a federal lawsuit that grease and sewage from a nearby Waffle House seeped onto his property, doing thousands of dollars in damage.
Mack Crook Jr. of Anniston is seeking a total of $800,000 from Norcross, Georgia-based Waffle House Inc.
At issue is a Waffle House in Anniston that's adjacent to Crook's property.
Crook maintains that the restaurant's "grease interceptor" continuously leaked grease and fluid into the ground. He says a combination of grease and sewage seeped on and under the foundation of his building, damaging it.
Waffle House representatives didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
Crook filed his lawsuit in Calhoun County in Alabama earlier this month, and Waffle House is seeking to have the case transferred into the federal court system.
