Indianapolis – Unexpected Lottery Lawsuit for $11.5 Million

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70-year-old Charles Andrews claims that a clerk from a Speedway store refused to sell him a lottery ticket for the February 2008 Hoosier Lottery a few minutes before the cutoff time. Andrews kept the pay slip with the store and his numbers turned out to be equivalent to $11.5 million jackpot.

Speedway store representatives claim that the incident did not occur as Andrews has illustrated and currently they are looking for a security tape that can shed a light upon the events from that night.

According to the Hoosier Lottery spokeswoman vendors are able to set their own hours for selling lottery tickets, but all sales must be completed by 10:40 p.m. Andrews’ lawyers say that the law isn’t explicit about the retail hours and that “it’s only fair to the citizens who spend their hard-earned money on the lottery to know when the lottery is open…”. The lawsuit was transferred to federal court and now awaits judge’s ruling.