By: Nathan Koppel
A Texas case raises a legal issue that we hope no reader ever has to encounter: you offer an engagement ring, a pricey one at that, to your significant other, only to have your marriage proposal rejected. Worse, the ring is not returned!
What else to do but file suit? Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams has done just that.
Williams proposed by mail to Brooke Daniels, the lovely, 2009 Miss Texas USA winner pictured left. Inside the mailed proposal, Williams included a $76,000 engagement ring.
Daniels rejected the proposal and failed to return the ring, according to a court filing accompanying Williams' suit, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Daniels reportedly told Williams she lost the ring, but according to an investigation from Williams' insurance company, the ring is in the possession of Daniels' father Michael, according to the Morning News.
In an interview with the Odessa American, Michael Daniels said Roy Williams told his daughter to keep the engagement ring after she declined his hand in marriage, the newspaper reports.
Williams allegedly "said (to Brooke), 'I'm not like a lot of people, I don't want the ring back. You'll eventually come back to me,'" Michael Daniels told the Odessa American.
But a truce might be soon at hand.
Michael Daniels says he'll return the ring to avoid a legal hassle, according to this AP report.
"I want to wash my hands of it," Michael Daniels told the Odessa American. "It's just a hassle. I'll take care of my daughter. I don't need him."