Catelyn Stark Case

Statement of Facts Catelyn Stark (“Cate”) has a claim for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress (“NIED”). Cate has an adult son, Jon, born between Eddark Stark (“Ned”) and Wylla Starfall (“Wylla”). Jon was 1 year old when Ned married Cate. 15 months after the marriage, Ned left Jon with Cate and has not contacted them since. Cate never formally divorced Ned or adopted Jon. She had briefly obtained brief custody of Jon but never renewed it since its expiration in 1997. As years passed, both have become very emotionally attached. Jon has always called Cate “mom”, and Cate has always raised him like her own, referring to him as her “son”. Jon briefly attended college before dropping out to pursue his fencing career in order to compete in the Olympics in fencing. On December 23, 2016, Cate was waiting for Jon and his girlfriend Ygritte in the bar area inside the Westeros Restaurant (“Westeros”) at Times Square for a holiday celebration dinner. It was dark and snowing on that evening. The bar area was situated a few feet past the foyer of the restaurant and was open to the dining area with no wall in-between. The front entrance was not easily visible from the bar area. At the time, as a customer attraction, the restaurant had a hovering drone fitted with a camera and mistletoe that hovered outside the restaurant. It flew around filming
There were eight people in the camera view and everyone was wearing the similar Black attire. The man had messy dark curly hair and was wearing a dark ivy cap that looked similar to what Jon owned. When he looked up at the mistletoe and paused directly under the drone, Cate saw pieces of fragments fly across the screen, and the screen went blank. She then heard a loud crash, and with that, the storefront window shattered. Pieces of drone flew into the dining area and the place went