Commentary for Bava Kamma 72:4

אמר רבינא הכי קתני אם יש בו מותר בנזקיו יחזיר לשלפניו

over that done to the subsequent plaintiff, the amount of the difference will revert to the plaintiff in respect of the preceding damage.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As e.g. where an ox of the value of a hundred zuz gored successively the ox of A the ox of B and the ox of C, and the damages amount to fifty, thirty and twenty zuz respectively, C will be paid the sum of twenty, B only ten, which is the difference between the compensation due to him and that due from him to C, and A will get twenty, which again is the difference between the compensation due to him from the owner (of the ox that did the damage) and that owing from him to B. All the payments together, which are twenty to A, ten to B and twenty to C, make only fifty, so that the balance of the value of the ox will go to its owner. ');">⁴</span>

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