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2018 Georgia Code 44-12-91 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 44 PROPERTY

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

ARTICLE 3 BAILMENTS

44-12-91. Voluntary or involuntary depositories; liability for naked deposit.

A person may voluntarily undertake to be a depository or may become so involuntarily, as by finding chattels. For a naked deposit, the depository is responsible only for gross negligence.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2083; Code 1868, § 2078; Code 1873, § 2104; Code 1882, § 2104; Civil Code 1895, § 2922; Civil Code 1910, § 3495; Code 1933, 12-302.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Finder of property is involuntary bailee for true owner. Groover v. Tippins, 51 Ga. App. 47, 179 S.E. 634 (1935).

Finder gains title as to third parties. Groover v. Tippins, 51 Ga. App. 47, 179 S.E. 634 (1935).

Cited in Self v. Dunn & Brown, 42 Ga. 528, 5 Am. R. 544 (1871); Salant & Salant v. Dannenberg Co., 10 Ga. App. 263, 73 S.E. 426 (1912).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Bailments, §§ 8, 164, 165 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 26B C.J.S., Depositaries, § 4 et seq.

ALR.

- Liability of a bailee of money who commingles it with his own funds, 20 A.L.R. 378.

Duty and liability of one in possession of real property in respect of personal property which he finds thereon belonging to another, 131 A.L.R. 165.

Liability of hotel, motel, or similar establishment for damage to or loss of guest's automobile left on premises, 52 A.L.R.3d 433.

Presumption of payment as applicable to bank deposit, 69 A.L.R.3d 1311.

Liability of warehouseman or other bailee for loss of goods stored at other than agreed-upon place, 76 A.L.R.4th 883.

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