Dennis v. Weaver

Eberhardt, Judge.

Bartow Dennis held a number of tickets which were given to him on the purchase of gasoline from a filling station, entitling him to participate in a drawing to be held for an automobile which the filling station was giving away. Elizabeth Weaver, his girl friend, alleged that Dennis gave the tickets to her, that one of them turned out to be the “lucky” one, and that he thereafter took the winning ticket from her pocketbook and claimed the prize for himself, refusing to deliver it to her. She brought trover for the ticket, or its value, which she alleged to have been the value…