Cross references.

- Deposits of valuables with innkeepers, § 43-21-10 et seq.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Bank is "depository for hire" where customer rents safety deposit box. Buena Vista Loan & Sav. Bank v. Bickerstaff, 121 Ga. App. 470, 174 S.E.2d 219 (1970).

Hotel landlord is naked depository if one has left a valise in the office of a hotel without calling attention thereto, and a clerk, without knowing the identity of the owner, places the valise in a room where baggage is kept. Stewart & Powell v. Head, 70 Ga. 449 (1883).

Recycler of shipping pallets did not establish status as a naked depository since it was unclear whether the recycler held the pallets gratuitously and for the benefit of the putative owner and lessor of the pallets; the recycler purchased the pallets from an entity which had no contractual relationship with the lessor, and the evidence also permitted the conclusions that the recycler claimed ownership of the pallets and that the pallets were held with an expectation of payment. CHEP USA v. Mock Pallet Co., F.3d (11th Cir. 2005)(Unpublished).

Cited in Georgia R.R. & Banking Co. v. Thompson, 86 Ga. 327, 12 S.E. 640 (1890); Merchants Nat'l Bank v. Guilmartin, 88 Ga. 797, 15 S.E. 831, 14 L.R.A. 322 (1892); White v. American Ins. Co., 53 Ga. App. 320, 185 S.E. 605 (1936); Postell v. Val-Lite Corp., 78 Ga. App. 199, 51 S.E.2d 63 (1948); Dalton Textile Corp. v. Cooper, 82 Ga. App. 232, 60 S.E.2d 529 (1950); Brooks v. Holman, 121 Ga. App. 720, 175 S.E.2d 131 (1970); Glennville Hatchery, Inc. v. Thompson, 164 Ga. App. 819, 298 S.E.2d 512 (1982).

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