Woman throws lottery ticket away and someone else picks it up and discovers it is a million dollar winner. The person whom threw it away sued and the judge ruled for the money to be returned............BS Judge, she threw the ticket away....If I was the lady that found that ticket there would be no way I would return handover a penny of it.

Spend the heck out of it then try to collect something from nothing.

http://news.yahoo.com/woman-lost-ark-lotto-ticket-entitled-1m-001711454.html

I agree... she threw it away, it's up for grabs!

Quote from: taxed on May 01, 2012, 10:20:55 PM
I agree... she threw it away, it's up for grabs!

I don't know where this happened... Isn't there usually local law that says pretty much that? If you put it in a garbage container, you have surrendered ownership and claim to it? Maybe it's a common law thing...

I don't know what the judge was thinking.  The rules of the Arkansas lottery state as follows:
"Claim Your Prize
Hello, winner! Here's how to claim your Arkansas Scholarship Lottery prize:
1. Sign your ticket (there's a space to sign on the back). Tickets are bearer instruments — if you lose a ticket before you sign it, you no longer have valid ownership of the ticket."

There it is in black and white.  First stipulation in the lotto rules.  If you "lose" your ticket before you sign it, you no longer are the owner.

So, how could someone who threw their ticket away (before signing it, presumably) claim to be the winner?  It doesn't necessarily mean that the woman who scavenged the ticket from the trash is entitled to the money.  It just means that the woman who threw the ticket away isn't entitled to the money.

Well, actually, if the lottery ticket is truly a "bearer instrument," like paper money, the woman who found it most certainly is entitled to it, and the woman that lost it is SOL. I'm not that familiar with the case... how does the woman who "lost" it, or threw it away, validate that she ever had it at all?

Quote from: hokiewoodchuck on May 01, 2012, 08:42:36 PM
Woman throws lottery ticket away and someone else picks it up and discovers it is a million dollar winner. The person whom threw it away sued and the judge ruled for the money to be returned............BS Judge, she threw the ticket away....If I was the lady that found that ticket there would be no way I would return handover a penny of it.

Spend the heck out of it then try to collect something from nothing.

http://news.yahoo.com/woman-lost-ark-lotto-ticket-entitled-1m-001711454.html

They should have just split the million. By the time the lawyers got done in court, there was probably less than $100,000 left..........................but taxes owed on the entire million.