HATE ROUSED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 421, 30 April 1937, Page 2

HATE ROUSED

LOTTERY PRIZE ECHO Young Lovers Quarrel Buenot 1 Aires, April 9. A lottery ticket which won 100,001) pesos has provided its purchaser with a p.pk of trouble, including the loss of his sweetheart, the everlasting enmity of her family, and the black looks of his own. It has also provided the lawyers with a knotty case to wrangle over, and the newspapers with lots of copy. Oscar Ricci, a young bank clerk, bought a 'ticket in the Christmas lottery which he handed over to his sweetheart, Iride Cervini, for safe keeping. According to his own account, he explained that if it should win a big prize he intended to give half of it .to his parent and use the other half as a nest egg on which to got married. According to Papa Cervini, he made a present outright of half the ticket to his fiancee. Trouble arose when it was learned

that the ticket had won 100,000 pesos. Ricci went to see his sweetheart and asked h r to hand over the tlckek for collection, saying that marriage wa> now no longer a dream, but could be realised forthwi h. Papa Cervini, however, feeling certain misgivings, cut the ticket in half, han led onehalf to Ricci and sill that they nculd go together to the lottery adminis'ration and collect the money jointly. Ricci refused, and laid a chaige against Cervini and his daughter. Then the Lawyers l stepped in and said the case could not be settled so easily. Cervini’s lawyers contended' that as possession is nine points of the law, the ticket (or half of il) was undoubtedly the property of Iride Cervini. Ricci’s lawyer contended that as his client had given hie finances half the ticket on the condition they were married, that gift was now null and void because the law expressly prohibits making marriage to a given person a condition of any contract. Laughing to scorn the idea 'that Ricci had given the girl halt the ticket unconditionally, the lawyer said such a contention was tantamount to giving her a dowry for some one else’s benefit if she chose to refuse him. The case is such a knotty one that that no immediate decision is likely to be made by the Courts. In the meantime hatred and uncharitableness pervade the atmosphere of at least two households which a few days ago were envied by all acquaintances.