Ark. Judge Hearing Lawsuit Over $1M Lotto Ticket

Searcy, AR - An Arkansas judge will hear arguments over who is the rightful owner of the $1 million jackpot from a lottery ticket that a woman grabbed from a pile of discarded tickets at a gas station.

A White County Circuit judge on Wednesday planned to hold a hearing over whether to lift his restraining order freezing the money that Sharon Jones says she won from the ticket she picked up from the Super 1 Stop. Lisa Petriches, the gas station's manager, sued Jones and said that Jones took the discarded ticket from a receptacle without her permission.

The ticket hadn't been completely scratched off and turned out to be a $1 million winner.

Jones has argued that she has removed discarded tickets from the station's stack before without drawing an objection.