Court Opinion

ID: 9761926
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:00:10.012449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:27.734599
License: Public Domain

LÓPEZ, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent to the majority’s opinion. Unlike the out-of-state cases cited by the majority, this case is different. In the out-of-state cases, the plaintiff bought the disputed ticket from an employee of an authorized sales agent. But in this case, the ticket was not sold by an employee of Circle K. Instead, the person who sold the ticket to Mrs. Kinnard was the wife of the manager of the Circle K store. As a non-employee, the wife was not authorized to sell the ticket, nor was she trained to properly sell lottery tickets. As a result, the person who sold the ticket to Mrs. Kinnard violated the Texas Government Code. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 466.303(a) (Vernon Supp.1998) (criminalizing the sale of lottery tickets by persons other than an authorized sales agent or an employee of a sales agent). Because this case involves a ticket that was sold by an unauthorized person, this court is not bound by the line of cases involving the sale of lottery tickets by persons authorized to do so. Although I concur in the result as to liability of the Lottery Commission, because of the reasons set out above, I disagree that Circle K was entitled to summary judgment.