Talmud for Eruvin 10:9

לֹא יַעֲמֹד אָדָם בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָּחִיד וְיִפְתַּח בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים, בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים וְיִפְתַּח בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָּחִיד, אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן עָשָׂה מְחִצָּה גְבוֹהָה עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי מֵאִיר. אָמְרוּ לוֹ, מַעֲשֶׂה בְשׁוּק שֶׁל פַּטָּמִין שֶׁהָיָה בִירוּשָׁלַיִם, שֶׁהָיוּ נוֹעֲלִין וּמַנִּיחִין אֶת הַמַּפְתֵּחַ בַּחַלּוֹן שֶׁעַל גַּבֵּי הַפֶּתַח. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, שׁוּק שֶׁל צַמָּרִים הָיָה:

One may not stand in a private domain and open in the public domain [He may not stand in a private domain and take the key lying in the public domain and open the door of the shop situated in the public domain, even if there are not four cubits from the place of the key to the door — a decree, lest he take the key to himself (in the private domain)]; (he may not stand) in the public domain and open in a private domain, unless he makes a partition ten tefachim high [and stands within it and opens and closes.] These are the words of R. Meir. They said to him: Did it not happen in the market of the "fatters" [butchers who fatten animals for slaughtering] in Jerusalem that they would lock (the doors) and leave the key on the window over the door! [The rabbis understood R. Meir as saying that just as one may not stand in a private domain and open in the public domain, etc., so he may not stand in a karmelith and open in a private domain, or in a private domain and open in a karmelith. For this reason they query him from the (instance of) the market of the fatters" in Jerusalem, which was a karmelith. (Since its doors were locked at night, it is not called a public domain), and the window on which the key was placed was a private domain, notwithstanding which they stood in the karmelith and opened in the private domain. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Meir, neither in the public domain nor in a karmelith.] R. Yossi says: It was a market of wool-sellers.

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