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Show During a lull in the court proceedings at Auburn the other day, Sheriff Lamb propounded a legal question based on an actual occurrence recently in East Liv-ennore. Liv-ennore. Two neighbors in that town own rams. One of the rams jumped j over the fence into the field of the neighbor neigh-bor and while there injured one of the , cattle which was grazing in the field, j The neighbor caught tho ram and tied1 him in the barn where his own ram was ; tied. Ashe happened to give him too; much slack rope the ram got at the more securely tied ram belonging to the man who had tied him and killed him. After having performed this feat he managed, through the extra amount of lopo, to get so entangled as to get hanged by the neck until he was dead. The legal question : involved was as to who should pay for j the ram the neighbor who, by letting his ram loose, caused all the trouble, or the neighbor who, by tying him in the barn so carelessly, caused tho death of both animate. Bangor News. 1 |