O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-76 (2019)

Keeper of livery stable; diligence

✓ 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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The keeper of a livery stable is a depository for hire and is bound to use the same diligence as an innkeeper.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2102; Code 1868, § 2097; Code 1873, § 2124; Code 1882,

§ 2124; Civil Code 1895, § 2943; Civil Code 1910, § 3515; Code 1933, § 12-402.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Keeper of livery stable is bound to extraordinary diligence in protecting property which is committed to the keeper’s care when O.C.G.A. § 44-12-76 is construed in light of O.C.G.A. § 43-21-8.

Burns v. Reese, 7 Ga. App. 387, 66 S.E. 982, 1910 Ga. App. LEXIS 306 (1910); Wood v. Clary, 143 Ga. 495, 85 S.E. 694, 1915 Ga. LEXIS 497 (1915).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Bailment: effect of failure to reply to notice of rate at which goods then on premises may be left, 24 A.L.R. 968.

Stockyard operator’s liability for injury to or death of stock, 40 A.L.R.2d 988.