LeRoy v. Tremper

The proof that license plates, the property of respondents, were upon the car concerned in the accident estab*388listed prima facie that the automobile was owned and controlled by them and that the operator was engaged in their business at the time. (Ferris v. Sterling, 214 N. Y. 249.) This proof, however, was fully and completely overcome by respondents’ evidence, which showed that the car was not then and never had been owned by them; that it was owned and operated by defendant Harold Barton; that defendant Alfred Barton, who was employed by respondents as' a handy man, took the license plates…