He presented Derek’s claim that the ticket had been found unsigned in a common area of a shared household, that Derek had taken it to a secure location to determine whether it was a winner, that he had filed the claim in good faith, and that the unsigned status of the ticket indicated no clear legal ownership. He was polished.
He used phrases like shared domestic arrangement and ambiguity of possession and reasonable assumption of abandonment. I watched the panel. Barbara Ye wrote something on her notepad and underlined it. Then James presented our case. He began with the transaction record from Garfield’s pharmacy.
printed, certified, timestamped 2:47 p.m. on March 6th, bearing my customer account number and my name and my address. He presented the security footage, which had been reviewed and confirmed by a neutral third-p party technician, a clear, unambiguous recording of me at the lottery counter purchasing the ticket, exchanging it for my copy, leaving the store.