Sheppard v. Weekly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when husband and wife are co-owners and enjoy equal rights to use and control a vehicle, the husband cannot be held liable pursuant to the family purpose doctrine for the wife’s negligent operation of the vehicle
• “In the absence of contradictory evidence, it is presumed that co-owners enjoy equal rights to use and control the property, independently of the other owner’s knowledge or consent.”
• “In the absence of contradictory evidence, it is presumed that co-owners enjoy equal rights to use and control the property, independently of the other owner’s knowledge or consent.”
• this case involved the co-ownership of a vehicle and has been cited for the presumption stated above in cases involving real property; see, e.g., Church v. Woods, 190 Or App 112, 118, 77 P3d 1150 (2003)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).