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2018 Georgia Code 44-12-76 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

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

ARTICLE 3 BAILMENTS

44-12-76. Keeper of livery stable; diligence.

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

(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.)

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); Wood v. Clary, 143 Ga. 495, 85 S.E. 694 (1915).

Cited in Colquitt & Baggs v. Kirkman, 47 Ga. 555 (1875); Domestic Sewing Mach. Co. v. Watters, 50 Ga. 573 (1874); Turner v. Priest, 48 Ga. App. 109, 171 S.E. 881 (1933).

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.

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