Accrual of actions for recovery of personal property or loss of timber; damages for conversion or destruction
Known as the J. Calvin Hill, Jr., Act
The act spans §§ 9–9 (53 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Therrell v. Georgia Marble Holdings Corp. (1992)
Most recently applied in Farmer v. Levenson (October 2003)
Ga
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Actions for the recovery of personal property, or for damages for the conversion or destruction of the same, shall be brought within four years after the right of action accrues, and actions involving the unauthorized cutting or cutting and carrying away of timber from the property of another shall be brought within four years after the cutting
or cutting and carrying away of timber.
Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.