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Call Now: 904-383-7448The term "hiring" means a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry of himself during a certain time and for a stipulated compensation or by which one person contracts for the labor or services of another person with regard to a thing bailed to such other person for a specified purpose.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2056; Code 1868, § 2059; Code 1873, § 2085; Code 1882, § 2085; Civil Code 1895, § 2903; Civil Code 1910, § 3476; Code 1933, § 12-201.)
Services performed for wages or under any contract of hire are one and same as a matter of law. National Trailer Convoy, Inc. v. Undercofler, 109 Ga. App. 703, 137 S.E.2d 328 (1964).
- Where it was clear from the terms of an automobile lease agreement that a contract for hire was created, with lessor as bailor and lessee as bailee, the relationship between the parties was governed by the lease terms, and by the statutory obligations of a bailor under O.C.G.A. § 44-12-63. Mark Singleton Buick, Inc. v. Taylor, 194 Ga. App. 630, 391 S.E.2d 435 (1990).
A ski rental agreement established the relationship of bailor-bailee which was governed by the terms of the agreement and the obligations of a bailor under O.C.G.A. § 44-12-63. Benford v. RDL, Inc., 223 Ga. App. 800, 479 S.E.2d 110 (1996).
- Where an article is bailed to another for the purpose of making repairs on it for a consideration, the bailment is in its inception for the mutual benefit of both the bailor and the bailee. Shropshire v. Caylor, 94 Ga. App. 37, 93 S.E.2d 586 (1956).
Cited in Western Union Tel. Co. v. Fontaine, 58 Ga. 433 (1877); Cabaniss v. Ponder, 65 Ga. 134 (1880); Dilberto v. Harris, 95 Ga. 571, 23 S.E. 112 (1894); Massillon Engine & Thrasher Co. v. Akerman, 110 Ga. 570, 35 S.E. 635 (1900); Arrington Bros. & Co. v. Fleming, 117 Ga. 449, 43 S.E. 691, 97 Am. St. R. 169 (1903); Wilensky v. Martin, 4 Ga. App. 187, 60 S.E. 1074 (1908); McDonald v. Hardee, 22 Ga. App. 96, 95 S.E. 320 (1918); Queen v. Patent Scaffolding Co., 46 Ga. App. 364, 167 S.E. 789 (1933); White v. American Ins. Co., 53 Ga. App. 320, 185 S.E. 605 (1936); Heughan v. State, 82 Ga. App. 640, 61 S.E.2d 685 (1950); James v. Mack Trucks, Inc., 146 Ga. App. 689, 247 S.E.2d 215 (1978); Coe v. Carroll & Carroll, Inc., 308 Ga. App. 777, 709 S.E.2d 324 (2011).
- Bailment: effect of failure to reply to notice of rate at which goods then on premises may be left, 24 A.L.R. 968.
Character of contract to raise seed, 29 A.L.R. 647.
Character of contract for use of chattels with agreement for replacements, 38 A.L.R. 175.
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