Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice

date posted 13th January 2006 18:46

On Friday 13 Jan 2006 6:12 pm, Robin Vickery wrote:
> On 13 Jan 2006 17:50:38 -0000, Alain Williams [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:44:17PM -0000, Robin Vickery wrote:
> > > Generally, if someone pays you money by mistake, then they're entit=
led
> > > to restitution. Just because your brother's spent it, doesn't make =
it
> > > his. Neither does the fact that it wasn't his mistake.
> >
> > The real question is when he is going to pay it back. Since it wasn't=
his
> > mistake he should not have to pay it back so quickly that he ''suffer=
s''.
>
> Yeah, I quite agree. The best bet is to come to some reasonable
> agreement on a schedule of payments.

I don't. It's a lottery. There was a winner. It was Richard's brother.
If somebody "made a mistake" and thinks that someone else=20
should get the money - why don't *they* come up with it?