Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

46-9-1. Standard of care for carriers and common carriers; presumption of negligence by common carriers arising from loss of goods.

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Carriers as such are bound to exercise ordinary diligence. Common carriers as such are bound to use extraordinary diligence, and in cases of loss the presumption of law is against them, and no excuse avails them unless the loss was occasioned by the act of God or the public enemies of the state.

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

Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2038, 2039; Code 1868, §§ 2039, 2040; Code 1873, §§ 2065, 2066; Code 1882, §§ 2065, 2066; Civil Code 1895, §§ 2263, 2264; Civil Code 1910, §§ 2711, 2712; Code 1933, § 18-102.

Cross references

Standard of care for carriers who issue bills of lading, § 11-7-309.

Law reviews

For annual survey on law of torts, see 43 Mercer L. Rev. 395 (1991).

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