A Russian man has gone to court to recover the money he spent over the course of a failed romantic relationship.
The couple split after a romantic trip to the Crimea Peninsula, on which the then-girlfriend had expected to receive an offer of marriage. When her boyfriend failed to pop the question, she ended the relationship.
When she got back to their home city of Krasnoyarsk, she found an even more unpleasant surprise: a court summons and a demand to return more than 40,000 rubles (USD 595).
“It was discussed as a romantic trip, that he would propose to me -- which didn’t happen,” she said. “I got mad and left.”
She received court summons soon after the breakup and learned that her former partner kept receipts and summed up the amount he spent on dates over the course of their two-year relationship.
“I received a court summons and found out he wanted to be reimbursed,” she said.
The man, who works as a lawyer, told the court that he had not been obliged to spend the money, and described the couple's time together as a “working relationship.”
A lawyer, Alexander Yevdokimov, said he believed the man was unlikely to win the case unless he had asked the woman to sign the receipts.
“I think there’s little prospect of winning a case for the man -- even if the situation has a certain music-hall or comic quality,” Yevdokimov said.
Source: The Moscow Times
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