Childress Buick Co. v. O'CONNELL

OPINION

SULT, Judge.

¶ 1 In this opinion, we determine whether ownership of a vehicle had passed from Ap-pellee Childress Buick to the prospective buyer of the vehicle at the time Appellant Richard O’Connell rear-ended the vehicle with the buyer in possession pursuant to an attempted, but ultimately unsuccessful, purchase of the vehicle. In determining that ownership had not passed and that O’Con-nells’ insurer was therefore wrong in paying the prospective buyer and not Childress for the vehicle damage, we decide that Cavazos v. Holmes Tuttle Broadway Ford, Inc., 104 Ariz. 540, 456 P.2d 910…