That fortune smiles and winning a million-dollar prize in the lottery is, in most cases, a reason for happiness, but sometimes it can be a source of disputes if it is a shared prize. This is what has happened to neighbors who have ended up in court after winning a lottery prize of more than 3.5 million euros.
According to reports from the British media ‘The Sun’, the conflict has arisen between a group of neighbors who used to participate jointly in lottery draws. And now, once the millionaire prize has been won, one of them has taken the other two, aged 76 and 89, to justice, alleging that He had been excluded from the profits.
The three of them had formed a lottery partnership in which they used to place joint bets in the hope of winning one day. But what was celebrated as a stroke of luck in the community soon It became a source of tension.
Justice agrees with the denounced elderly
The complainant explained that His neighbors had unjustly separated him from the association they had to participate in the awards, even going so far as to provide evidence of the regular contributions he made to jointly participate in the lottery draws.
The reported neighbors argued that he had not been part of the group for almost a year after a fight between the elderly. In this way, since then he did not contribute money to participate in the raffles, and He was not entitled to receive his share of the prize of more than 3.5 million euros.
After a dispute of more than two years in court, justice has resolved the conflict of these neighborsconsidering that the accused was not part of the association at the time the prize was won and that, therefore, it is not his responsibility to receive his share.