Related%20passage for Bava Metzia 71:15

מתיב רמי בר חמא המפקיד מעות אצל חבירו צררן והפשילן לאחוריו מסרן לבנו ובתו הקטנים ונעל בפניהם שלא כראוי חייב שלא שמר כדרך השומרים

Now, R. Ammi was sitting and recounting this discussion, whereupon R. Abba b. Memel raised an objection before him: IF A MAN HIRES A COW FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR, LENDS IT TO ANOTHER, AND IT DIES A NATURAL DEATH, THE HIRER MUST SWEAR THAT IT DIED NATURALLY, AND THE BORROWER MUST PAY THE HIRER. But if this [sc. R. Johanan's ruling] be correct, let him [the owner] say to him, 'It is not my desire that my bailment should be in the hands of another person'! — He replied: The circumstances here are that the owner authorised him to lend it. If so, he ought to pay the owner!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The assumption is that he permitted him to lend it to that particular person; but in that case, it is as though he himself had lent it, and therefore he ought to receive the compensation. ');">¹¹</span>

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