Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 1. GENERAL LAWS AND DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER 3. MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Part 2. Text of Maxims

Third Parties -- Who Suffers

1-3-234. Third parties -- who suffers. When one of two innocent persons suffers by the act of a third, the person by whose negligence it happened must be the sufferer.

History: En. Sec. 4634, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6211, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8772, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3543; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1998; re-en. Sec. 8772, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 49-135; amd. Sec. 23, Ch. 61, L. 2007.