Public policy demands that, if a dealer's number plates are affixed to a motor vehicle, they constitute prima facie evidence of the ownership of the vehicle by the dealer to whom they were issued. This is so despite the fact that the statutes governing dealer registration allow, under certain circumstances, the use of dealer's plates on vehicles not owned by the dealer. The jury were not required to credit the evidence of the defendants that the car driven by the defendant S was owned by S and that

No. 16388. April 26, 1957. Rosanna A. Blake, Atty., N.L.R.B., Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Kenneth C. McGuiness, Gen. Counsel, Stephen Leonard, Associate Gen. Counsel, Frederick U. Reel, Atty., N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., for petitioner. J.R. Goldthwaite, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Quitman Ross, Laurel, Miss., Adair Goldthwaite, Atlanta, Ga., Cooper, Mitch Black, Birmingham, Ala., for respondent. Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges. TUTTLE, Circuit Judge. This