Reply To: Who is reponsible?

I think R’ Yitzchok Zilberstein once paskened a case like this. Don’t remember the psak. There was a similar story, where too many people went into an elevator and the elevator broke. The question was: who should pay? Maybe they should split the cost, maybe the last person that went into the elevator, they wanted to know who had to pay! I think it was R’ Elyashiv (someone please correct me if I’m wrong)that paskened that the one who pushed the button for the elevator had to pay, because without him, NOTHING would have happened!!