OX and a DITCH

(July 12, 2017 in Texarkana, Texas )
There we were,  in the middle of the courtroom on a very serious hearing and all of a sudden this is what you hear!   Luckily, my little fingers only froze for a moment when I thought, "What did he just say?" )
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                 " MR. COUNSEL:   Now, this phrase 'remote cause' is very important for the Court to focus on, because there is a long history of cases in Texas dating back to the 1800s that talk about remote causation.
                  "Now, where the ox left the ditch, in terms of the recommendation, initially, is in the -- it starts from the beginning".
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