MENSA BOISON J.
In this case the plaintiff sues the defendant for ¢1,152 damages, being the prize, which, but for the defendant’s default, he would have been entitled to on certain lotto tickets.
The plaintiff, now a farmer at New Adubeasi, was then at Sunyani. The action arises on these facts: On 12 June 1974, the plaintiff bought from the defendant, as lotto receiver No. 1834 in Sunyani, three lotto tickets, Nos. 17, 81 and 69. At the draw in Accra on 15 June 1974, those three numbers were declared as having won each respectively a prize of ¢384. Those tickets Nos. 17, 81 and 69 were issued respectively from lotto booklets numbers NC.241/757166, NC.241/757168 and NC.241/757173. After the necessary processing procedures of the said winning tickets, at the headquarters in Accra, of the Department of National Lotteries, the plaintiff was given in return for the said three tickets acknowledgement vouchers, exhibits A 1-3.
However, in further pursuit of his prize the plaintiff was eventual…