When one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third person, he who put it in the power of the third person to inflict the
injury shall bear the loss.
O.C.G.A. § 23-1-14
Who bears loss from act of third party
— Civil Code 1895, § 3940; Civil Code 1910, § 4537; Code 1933, § 37-118.
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