Reference for Bava Kamma 102:17

במאי קמיפלגי רבי אליעזר בן יעקב סבר יש ברירה

or rather perhaps that the act of the first digger had already been merged [in the act of the second] and the whole pit had since then been in the charge of the second? — Let this remain undecided.

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