Notice sufficient to excite attention and put a party on inquiry shall be notice of everything to which it is afterwards found that such inquiry might have led. Ignorance of a fact due to negligence shall be equivalent to knowledge in fixing the rights of parties. History. — Civil Code 1895, § 3933; Civil Code 1910, § 4530; Code 1933, § 37-116. History of Code section. — This Code section is derived from the decisions in Hunt v. Dunn, 74 Ga. 120 (1884) and Schmidt v. Block, 76 Ga. 823 (1886).
Scope of notice; ignorance due to negligence
O.C.G.A. § 23-1-17, under GENERAL PROVISIONS.
O.C.G.A. § 23-1-17