If
a worker digs a pit, he, and not his employer, is liable for the
damages - because “there is no messenger for transgression” and it is
forbidden to create damaging obstacles in the public domain.
If
someone pushes an ox into a pit, or startles the animal and it falls,
the owner of the pit is liable for whatever can't be collected from the
first man.
If an ox and a person together push either a person
or an animal or utensils into a pit, all of them (the person, the ox
and the pit) are liable for damages, but only a person is liable for
the “four payments.”
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