O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-157 (2019)

Effect of destruction of or injury to property on defendant’s liability

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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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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

T.44, C.12, A.4, P.2

consideration; but in no case shall such an event cast the costs upon the plaintiff.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3011; Code 1868, § 3023; Code 1882, § 3078; Civil Code

1895, § 3919; Civil Code 1910, § 4516; Code 1933, § 107-107.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Applicability of O.C.G.A. § 44-12157. - 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 Ga. App. LEXIS 689 (1913).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Conversion, § 55.

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