Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange v. Powe

This is a subrogation suit for damages resulting from an intersection collision between 2 automobiles. One was owned and being driven by plaintiff’s decedent-assured. The other belonged to a minor who, at the time, was one of its occupants, but, for reasons related to financing its purchase, the defendant, a major and relative of the minor, was named in the certificate of title as owner. All occupants of the 2 automobiles were killed except 1. That survivor, a teenage girl, was riding-in the back seat of plaintiff’s assured’s automobile. She testified that she had been' reading a book just…