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Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 2. · Article 2. SALES · Part 7. REMEDIES

11-2-722. Who can sue third parties for injury to goods.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Where a third party so deals with goods which have been identified to a contract for sale as to cause actionable injury to a party to that contract:

  2. (a)

    A right of action against the third party is in either party to the contract for sale who has title to or a security interest or a special property or an insurable interest in the goods; and if the goods have been destroyed or converted a right of action is also in the party who either bore the risk of loss under the contract for sale or has since the injury assumed that risk as against the other;#

  3. (b)

    If at the time of the injury the party plaintiff did not bear the risk of loss as against the other party to the contract for sale and there is no arrangement between them for disposition of the recovery, his suit or settlement is, subject to his own interest, as a fiduciary for the other party to the contract;#

  4. (c)

    Either party may with the consent of the other sue for the benefit of whom it may concern.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 109A-2-722, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t11-(v9)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V9, 2022 edition, page 260; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ad397fccbf21.