{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-12-157","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 44-12-157","heading":"Effect of destruction of or injury to property on defendant’s liability.","body":"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.","path":["TITLE 44 Property","CHAPTER 12 Rights in Personalty","Article 4 Trover","PART 1 In General"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.44.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-10-18","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T18:59:42Z","sha256":"51518d339ea8f1bd9de78449df8e528125f149a6012aab68fed77c93f9c16ff2","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-12-156","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-44-12-158","notices":[{"id":"pro-ga","title":"Georgia bulk release","text":"Georgia bulk files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules retains enacted text and strips editorial matter.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ga.ocga.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}