Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Bava Metzia 73:9

ורמינהי שנים שהפקידו אצל אחד זה מנה וזה מאתים זה אומר שלי מאתים וזה אומר שלי מאתים נותן לזה מנה ולזה מנה והשאר יהא מונח עד שיבא אליהו

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. This proves that money is collected as a result of doubt, and we do not say, Let the money stand in the presumptive ownership of its possessor. But this is contradicted by the following: IF TWO MADE A DEPOSIT WITH ONE PERSON, ONE A <i>MANEH</i> AND THE OTHER TWO HUNDRED [<i>ZUZ</i>], THIS ONE SAID, THE TWO HUNDRED IS MINE, AND THE OTHER SAID LIKEWISE, THE TWO HUNDRED IS MINE: HE MUST GIVE A <i>MANEH</i> TO EACH, WHILST THE REST LIES UNTIL ELIJAH COMES! — Said he to him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The answerer to the questioner, though their names are unmentioned. [This is, however, omitted in several MSS, v. D.S. a.l.] ');"><sup>7</sup></span>

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