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Lapitan vs. PCSO

JOSE LAPITAN, plaintiff and appellant, vs. PHILIPPINE CHARITY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE, defendant and appellee.

No. 28228-R | 1963-10-15

LUCERO, J.:

In the June 2, 1958 draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, ticket bearing number 073522, divided into four shares, won the first prize of P100, 000.00. Claiming to be the holder of one share, the plaintiff Jose Lapitan on August 7, 1958, presented to the defendant Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office a badly mutilated ticket (Exhibit "K'). The defendant submitted Exhibit "K" to the National Bureau of Investigation requesting that the same be subjected to a laboratory test to determine the number genuineness thereof. The NBI reported that-

"In view of the extensive mutilation of the specimen...