O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-46 (2019)

Effect of delivery to consignee at intermediate point

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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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A common carrier may recover pro rata for the actual distance transported when the consignee voluntarily receives the goods at an intermediate point.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 2049; Code 1868, § 2051; Code 1873, § 2077; Code 1882, § 2077; Civil Code 1895, § 2287; Civil Code 1910, § 2741; Code 1933, § 18-307.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Origin of section. - Former Civil Code 1895, § 2287 did not have its origin in a statute of this state. It appears for the first time in the Code of 1863. It has, however, all the binding effect of an original act of the legislature, because of the adoption by the legislature of the Codes wherein it appears. Central of Ga. Ry. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S.E. 531, 42 L.R.A. 518 (1898); Wilensky v. Central of Ga. Ry., 136 Ga. 889, 72 S.E. 418, 1912D Ann. Cas. 271 (1911).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Rights and duties of carrier and consignee as to freight unloaded from cars and left on right of way, 38 A.L.R. 676.