2021 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 12 - Rights in Personalty
Article 3 - Bailments
Part 2 - Hiring
§ 44-12-69. Rights of Action of Hirer and Bailor
For an interference with the possession of the thing hired, the right of action is in the hirer; for an injury to the property and for any interference with his property rights, the bailor has a right of action.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2062; Code 1868, § 2065; Code 1873, § 2091; Code 1882, § 2091; Civil Code 1895, § 2909; Civil Code 1910, § 3482; Code 1933, § 12-210.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Bailments, § 205 et seq.
C.J.S.- 8 C.J.S., Bailments, § 93 et seq.
ALR.
- Estoppel to assert title to personal chattel by permitting another to use it in his business, 7 A.L.R. 676.
Bailee's reimbursement of bailor as affecting latter's right of action against tort-feasor for damaging subject of bailment, 166 A.L.R. 206.
Bailee's liability for bailor's expense of recovering stolen subject of bailment, 80 A.L.R.3d 264.
