Business Law Today, Comprehensive 10th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 7

Case Problem with Sample Answer-Passage of Title. Kenzie Godfrey was a passenger in a taxi that collided with a car driven by Dawn Altieri. Altieri had originally leased the car from G.E. Capital Auto Lease, Inc. By the time of the accident, she had bought it, but she had not fully paid for it or completed the transfer-of-title paperwork. Godfrey suffered a brain injury and sought to recover dam­ages from the owner of the car that Altieri was driving. Who had title to the car at the time of the accident Explain.