Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 4. TROVER · Part 1. IN GENERAL

44-12-157. Effect of destruction of or injury to property on defendant’s liability.

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Pending a trover action, the death or destruction of or material injury to the property in dispute shall be no defense to a mere wrongdoer. If the defendant is a bona fide claimant and the injury arises from an act of God and is in no way the result of the defendant’s conduct, the jury may take the death, destruction, or material injury of the property into consideration; but in no case shall such an event cast the costs upon the plaintiff.

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.

Orig. Code 1863, § 3011; Code 1868, § 3023; Code 1882, § 3078; Civil Code 1895, § 3919; Civil Code 1910, § 4516; Code 1933, § 107-107.

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Text read from t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V32, 2022 edition, pages 269 to 270; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 02e72213893a.