ABSTRACT
Shortly after the war, when Austria was in a very bad way, an Austrian farmer hanged himself from the branch of a tree. A neighbour saw him and cut him down before life was extinct. The farmer brought an action against the neighbour on the ground that the neighbour had inflicted a further dose of life on him, which constituted a tort, in view of the fact that life in Austria at that time was an evil. The court appeared to agree with the farmer, though it acquitted the neighbour on some technicality.
