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2018 Georgia Code 44-12-65 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 44 PROPERTY

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

ARTICLE 3 BAILMENTS

44-12-65. Effect of breach of contract; action for conversion by bailor.

If either party violates the terms of the hiring, the other party may abandon the contract. If the hirer puts the thing to a different use than is specified in the contract, the bailor may bring an action as for a conversion even if the hirer is a minor.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2061; Code 1868, § 2064; Code 1873, § 2090; Code 1882, § 2090; Civil Code 1895, § 2908; Civil Code 1910, § 3481; Code 1933, § 12-206.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Allegation required for infant bailee's liability for damages.

- An infant bailee of a borrowed automobile is not liable for damages to the automobile caused by the bailee's reckless driving, in the absence of an allegation either that the bailee departed from the object of the bailment or that the bailee intentionally caused the damage. Jones v. Milner, 53 Ga. App. 304, 185 S.E. 586 (1936).

Cited in Northside Motors, Inc. v. O'Berry, 167 Ga. App. 155, 305 S.E.2d 894 (1983).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Bailments, § 230 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 8 C.J.S., Bailments, §§ 35, 99 et seq.

ALR.

- Appropriation by carrier for its own use of coal or other commodity shipped over its line, 29 A.L.R. 1241.

Recovery back of amount paid to bailee for repairs of no benefit to bailor, 31 A.L.R. 698.

Relation between customer and broker receiving bonds or other securities for sale or exchange, 52 A.L.R. 501.

Validity and effect of acceleration clause in lease or bailment, 58 A.L.R. 300; 128 A.L.R. 750.

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