Votaw v. Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange

The defendants have appealed from an adverse judgment in an action on an insurance policy.

The plaintiff, as the owner of an automobile, was insured against so-called public liability by a policy issued February 6, 1931. The defendant insurance companies were the insurers. After the policy was issued the plaintiff sold the automobile to one Kin on an oral contract of conditional sale under which Kin paid a portion of the purchase price and received possession of the car. The plaintiff retained both the certificate of ownership and the certificate of registration which had been issued to him…