Brown v. Pointer

Susan Brown was fatally injured when an automobile in which she was a passenger collided with another automobile, a 1962 Oldsmobile. Title to the Oldsmobile was registered in the name of defendant Associates Discount Corporation. Associates claimed that it had transferred ownership to a Ramon Hernandez who in turn had transferred ownership to Charles W. Pointer, the driver of the Oldsmobile.

As a prelude to an action against the owner under the civil liability act, the plaintiff Cleo Brown, as administrator of his daughter’s estate, commenced this action seeking a judgment declaring the…