"Winning the lottery should be a happy event. In this case, sadly, it has ruined relationships."

Justice Liliane Bantourakis's one-line summary of a recent B.C. Supreme Court case underlines the circumstances that saw four colleagues take a co-worker to court over a $2 million lottery jackpot that they felt entitled to share.

It outlines how co-workers at a trucking company had bought lottery tickets as a group from at least 2021 to 2022.

Surrey trucker Mandeep Singh Maan won the $2 million BC/49 …