GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION |
Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY |
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Section 46-9-3. Showings required by common carrier as prerequisite to use of exceptions under Code Sections 46-9-1 and 46-9-2
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- In order for a common carrier to avail himself of the act of God exception under Code Section 46-9-1 or the contractual exception under Code Section 46-9-2, he must establish not only that the act of God or the contractually excepted fact ultimately occasioned the loss but that his own negligence did not contribute thereto.
Civil Code 1895, § 2265; Civil Code 1910, § 2713; Code 1933, § 18-103.