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. History. — Civil Code 1895, § 3940; Civil Code 1910, § 4537; Code 1933, § 37-113. History of Code section. — The lan- guage of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Blaisdell v. Bohr, 77 Ga. 381 (1886).