State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Wyant

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This law action tried without a jury involves the ownership of a Chevrolet car. The dispute arises by reason of failure to add “Sr.” or “Jr.” to the title certificate.

Defendant Isaac Edward Wyant, Sr., and his wife have a son, Isaac Edward Wyant, Jr., who in 1968 was 17 years old. Viewing the evidence in its most favorable light to Wyants, the trial court as trier of the facts could find that the son desired to have a car, but in view of the son’s minority, the father desired to have control of the car, to have title to it and insurance on it in his own name, and to have…