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2018 Georgia Code 44-12-157 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 44-12-157 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 44-12-157

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 12. Rights in Personalty, 44-12-1 through 44-12-322.

ARTICLE 4 TROVER

44-12-157. Effect of destruction of or injury to property on defendant's liability.

Pending a trover action, the death or destruction of or material injury to the property in dispute shall be no defense to a mere wrongdoer. If the defendant is a bona fide claimant and the injury arises from an act of God and is in no way the result of the defendant's conduct, the jury may take the death, destruction, or material injury of the property into consideration; but in no case shall such an event cast the costs upon the plaintiff.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 3011; Code 1868, § 3023; Code 1882, § 3078; Civil Code 1895, § 3919; Civil Code 1910, § 4516; Code 1933, § 107-107.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Applicability of O.C.G.A. § 44-12-157. - O.C.G.A. § 44-12-157 applies where one takes possession of livestock under a conditional bill of sale. Moon v. Wright, 12 Ga. App. 659, 78 S.E. 141 (1913).

Cited in Burts v. Duncan, 36 Ga. 575 (1867); Smith v. Rosser, 37 Ga. 353 (1867); Carr v. Houston Guano & Whse. Co., 105 Ga. 268, 31 S.E. 178 (1898).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Conversion, § 55.

C.J.S.

- 89 C.J.S., Trover and Conversion, § 83.

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