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to be blind, or lame, or vicious, without lessen- 

 ing the degree of diligence. 



225. Ordinary Care. Ordinary care means that 

 amount of diligence which one would exercise 

 with regard to his own like property. There can 

 be no hard and fast rule in this regard. For ex- 

 ample, horses accustomed to be kept in barns, if 

 they chanced to be in a pasture when a storm 

 came up, with sleet and snow, would suffer if left 

 exposed. Ordinary care would mean the bringing 

 of the horses to shelter; but ordinary care for a 

 lot of wild horses, accustomed to exposure during 

 winter, in the same storm would mean letting them 

 alone. 



A milch cow would be injured were she not 

 milked at the usual time, and ordinary care re- 

 quires that she be milked for her own safety. 

 Sheep permitted to wear their winter coat of wool 

 through the summer months would suffer, and 

 ordinary care demands that such sheep be 

 sheared; but if the sheep are being boarded, or 

 agisted, in the absence of special agreement the 

 wool would be the property of the owner of the 

 sheep. The care of the sheep includes also the care 

 of the wool, and if it cannot be preserved without 

 loss to the owner, ordinary care would mean that 

 the wool must be sold, and in the place of handing 

 over the wool itself the agister would pass over 

 the money received. 



226. Duty of Bailor. ''It is the duty of the 

 bailor to exercise good faith toward the bailee by 

 giving him notice of all the faults of the thing 

 bailed, within his knowledge, that might result in 

 exposing the bailee to danger, and if he fails to do 



