23-05-2018 18:40 via vancouversun.com

Ian Mulgrew: B.C. lottery winner's largesse must be repaid

A $600,000 loan to a friend made by a B.C. lottery winner must be repaid even though she waited seven years to collect, says the province’s chief justice in a ruling that modifies existing contract law.
Enone Rosas, who came to Canada from the Philippines in 1990 to be a nanny, won $4.2 million in January 2007 and made the interest-free loan to pal Hermenisabel Toca so she and husband Gener Visaya could buy a home.
They moved out of a basement apartment into a $700,000 house on Dumfries St
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