O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-12-78 (2019)

Keeper of wharf; 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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One who keeps a wharf is a depository for hire and is liable upon the same principles as a warehouseman.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2092; Code 1868, § 2087; Code 1873, § 2113; Code 1882,

§ 2113; Civil Code 1895, § 2931; Civil Code 1910, § 3504; Code 1933, § 12-406.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Liability of warehouseman for injury to stored goods as result of failure to main-

tain proper temperatures, 92 A.L.R.2d 1298.

PART 3 DEPOSITS RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Liability of bailee for loss of or injury to goods kept at a place other than that originally intended, 17 A.L.R. 979. Acceptance of receptacle as charging one as bailee of contents, 18 A.L.R. 87.

Bank deposit for purpose of meeting certain checks or classes of checks, 39 A.L.R. 1138; 56 A.L.R. 1110; 86 A.L.R. 375. Liability for loss of contents of safe deposit box, 40 A.L.R. 874; 42 A.L.R. 1304; 133 A.L.R. 279.