O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-16-25 (2019)

Liability for hire received

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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Where sheriffs hire property out after it has been levied upon, they are liable to the proper party for the hire received.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 339; Code 1868, § 400; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 51, § 1; Code 1873, § 365; Code 1882, § 365; Civil Code 1895, § 4385; Civil Code 1910, § 4919; Code 1933, § 24-2822.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

By use of property, sheriff is liable for hire. Sumner v. Bell, 118 Ga. 240, 44 S.E. 973 (1903).

Cited in Howington v. Wilson, 213 Ga. 664, 100 S.E.2d 726 (1957).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Exception as regards payments to officers of court to rule preventing recovery back of payments made under mistake of law, 111 A.L.R. 637.