23-1-14. Who bears loss from act of third party.

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When one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third person, he who put it in the power of the third person to inflict the injury shall bear the loss.

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History

Civil Code 1895, § 3940; Civil Code 1910, § 4537; Code 1933, § 37-113.

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History of Code section.: The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Blaisdell v. Bohr, 77 Ga. 381 (1886).

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