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Show A Dfllrate OiiCHtinn. During a lull in the court proceedings 1 at Auburn tho other day, Sheriff Lamb ! propounded a legal question based on ail j actual occurrence recently in East Liv- j ermore. Two neighbors in that town j own rams. One of tho rams jumped i over the feme iuto tho field of the neigh- j bur nnd while there injured one of the j cattle which was grazing in the field. ' The neighbor caught the ram and tied him in tho barn where his own ram was tied. As ho happened to give him too smell slack rope. the. ram got at the more securely tied ram belonging to tho man who had tied him and killed him. After having performed this feat ho managed, through the extra amount of rope, to get so entangled as to get hanged by the neck until he was dead. The legal question involved wn who should pay fon tin ram-"i'T Ihbor who, by letting -his ram loo.C C d all the trouble, or the neighborNyby tying him in the barn so careles', caused the death of both uniuials. feangor News. |