New Mexico man sues lottery over ticket ‘misprint’

Imagine how you’d feel if you just won half a million dollars, only for it to be snatched away from you on some ‘technicality.’ That’s what a Roswell, New Mexico man says happened to him. John Wines bought a scratch-off lottery ticket last December. Wines needed to match the winning numbers to any of his numbers, and Wines thought he did–to the tune of $500,000.But the New Mexico Lottery is refusing to pay, saying the ticket had a ‘misprint.’“You get so high when you are thinking you are winning that kind of money, and then of course you get so low when you find out that the lottery won’t make good on their own terms,” said Wines’ attorney, Sam Bregman.Bregman says the ticket is a winner, and he wants to prove it in court.

by eunice vasquez