Lottery player wins case against deceptive store owner

Comment #13

JADELottery — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:56:51 GMT

looks like precedence for this thread - Winning Powerball in dispute

Comment #12

WILLSELL — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:05:01 GMT

The judicial system is a big joke. I had a conversation with someone who was recently on a jury. She was amazed at what really went on during deliberations.Individual jurors had the person convicted before they even weight the facts. Others wanted to convict so they would not have to waste time and get home or to their jobs, that typically don't cover the salry while out on jury duty.The courts know these factors and surely the lawyers do.So what is the point of a jury when when any judge can si... [ More ]

Comment #11

DoctorEw220 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:25:52 GMT

the ohio lottery website clearly explains about the liability cap of the game. the guy should not even have had a case, and i hope the IRS taxes him out the ass.

Comment #10

MESAW — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:27:03 GMT

how about the poor guy that only had 1 ticket. it's value went from 100,000 to 18,000. maybe he should now sue him for the balance of his ticket.mesaw

Comment #9

whodeani — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:34:50 GMT

This guy deserves 52/53 of the jackpot and nothing more. You need to know the rules of the game you are playing, especially this guy who was playing and spending as much as he was. The daily game I play has a top prize of $250,000 but is capped at $5,000,000 (20 winning tickets). If there are more than 20 winners, the jackpot becomes parimutuel. If I went out and bought 52 tickets with the same numbers and they hit, I would only deserve $5,000,000 and nothing more and it isn't the job of the lot... [ More ]

Comment #8

Jake649 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:33:37 GMT

Without knowing all the facts of the case, it is difficult to say you should win the case.I can see, though, where the store owner may share some of the liability. Say the player asked the store owner the rules and the store owner gave the player wrong information in order to encourage hime to keep playing the set of numbers several times. The store owner profited from the player's lack of understanding. Did the store owner intentionally contribute to the misunderstanding in order to profit from... [ More ]

Comment #7

RJOh — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:29:28 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by tg636 on March 25, 2004 .... How can anyone spend that much and be that obsessed but not know the rules of the game he is playing? .....Strung and his attorney probably knew the rules, but depended on a jury not knowing the rules or caring about them. Many jury decide a verdict on their feelings, not the laws, that the reason may verdicts are overturned when reviewed by judges who goes by what the actual law is and not by what people feel it should be.

Comment #6

keystonechas — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:56:18 GMT

tq636,If 1 2 3 4 5 6 would have been drawn, at best they may have had enough money for a good steak dinner.They claim thousands play that combo each day in every state lottery.Go figure why? Chas

Comment #5

Pick-4_Master — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:48:19 GMT

Maybe they meant the JACKPOT is guaranteed at $100,000 not the actual payout for a winning ticket which depends on the amount of winners if so a CLEARER explanation could be used.

Comment #4

tg636 — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:32:31 GMT

Anyone who spends $125,000 a year on lottery tickets has a serious gambling problem. How can anyone spend that much and be that obsessed but not know the rules of the game he is playing? If the $100,000 had been advertised or had rules that used words like guaranteed I could see it, but that doesn't seem to have been the case. If store owners are to be gambling counselors and rule explainers as well, I hope they are getting a bigger slice of the pie. If the state doesn't pay off the court ve... [ More ]

Comment #3

Flame — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:03:53 GMT

A guy in Wisconsin is suing his cable company for not turning off the cable after he cancelled his account there.He's claiming that the free cable has made his children lazy, and made him and his wife fat because all they do is watch the cable, that they didnt want......Tis a beautiful world we live, too bad the people screw it up.

Comment #2

KyngeRycharde — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:35:08 GMT

Stories like this cause me to shake my head in total disbelief and amazement.My favorite one is something that happened a number of years ago. A burgler breaks into a home that had an alarm. The alarm sounds, the police come and arrest the burgler. The burgler sued the homeowner, saying that a warning sign should have been posted...and WON.

Comment #1

keystonechas — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:54:43 GMT

Another perfect example of americans not being able to take responsibility for their own actions. Blame the other guy.It's not my fault I have lung cancer. It's RJ Reynolds and the store owner who sold me the cancer sticks for the past twenty-five years.It's not my fault I'm a big fat unhealthy slob. It's McDonalds for stuffing Big Macs and fries down my throat for years.It's not the terrorists fault they crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center. It's George W. Bushs Fault!!I wish the store... [ More ]

Lottery player wins case against deceptive store owner

Lottery Post — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:22:53 GMT

John Struna and his attorney Wednesday beat a legal demon that has vexed consumers for years: The fine print.The result means Struna could be more than $1 million richer, and a convenience store owner who sells Ohio Lottery tickets could be forced out of business.Four nights a week between 1997 and October 2001, Struna stopped at the Convenient Food Mart on East 200th Street in Cleveland, where he purchased between 40 and 55 Buckeye Five tickets from the store's owner, Harry Singh.Singh welcomed... [ More ]