ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, July 17, 1996 TAG: 9607170038
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: STAUNTON
SOURCE: Associated Press
A woman who claimed an $11.25 million Virginia Lottery jackpot can keep it, and the man who claims the money is rightfully his is out of luck, a judge has ruled.
Jerry Wayne Bartley's petition to challenge a Virginia Supreme Court ruling was denied in a decision last week by Augusta County Circuit Judge Thomas H. Wood.
Bartley sued Joyce Ann Harlow of Crimora, claiming that he bought the winning ticket May 7, 1994 at a Waynesboro convenience store. The ticket was one of two that picked all six winning numbers, making it good for half of a $22.5 million jackpot.
Bartley claimed that he and Harlow were living together then and had been jointly buying lottery tickets for some time. They had agreed to split the winnings of a jackpot, he said. Their numbers were combinations of their birth dates, he claims in court papers.
When Harlow discovered the ticket was a winner, she drove to Richmond alone to claim the money. Bartley said in a deposition that she gave him a few thousand dollars and bought him a new pickup truck, but kicked him out of her house afterward.
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