Delano v. La Bounty

Citations

• 62 Wash. 595
• 114 P. 434
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 751

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Streets—Injuries from Automobile— Ownership — Evidence—Sufficiency. In an action for personal injuries by a pedestrian struck by an automobile, the evidence is sufficient to establish defendant’s ownership of the automobile, although denied by himself and wife, where an unrecorded bill of sale thereof to his wife had unexplained erasures showing that it had been made to the defendant, the state license had been taken out in his name, and also a city taxicab license, under which the machine was being operated by a chauffeur.</p> <p>Same — License—Instructions. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5563, requiring the owner of every automobile to file in the office of the secretary of state his name and address and a description of the vehicle owned by him and obtain a certificate, the certificate is prima facie proof of ownership; and an instruction that it was a mere circumstance to be considered in determining the credibility of witnesses is properly refused.</p>