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involved • and from a recent case in which a preference is given 

 to the view cf the older authorities, and it is held that a trav- 

 eler or waj^arer journeying over the country becomes a guest 

 by obtaining and paying for entertainment for his beasts at an 

 inn ; but in both these cases the doctrine is apparently confined 

 to those who are travelers or wayfarers as distinguished from 

 residents But where one leaves his horse with an inn keeper 

 with no intention of stopping at the inn himself, but stops at a 

 relative's house, he is not a guest of the inn, and the liability 

 of the landlord is simply that of an ordinary bailee for hke. 



If a person who is traveling over the country from place to place, or 

 from one phice to another and returning, has occasion to seek 

 entertainment for liis horse or horses, alone, and obtains it for them 

 upon consideration of reward or pay charged liim by tlie liost or 

 landlord, he is in the legal sense a guest, as niucli as if he had him- 

 self received personal entertainment, and wliile such entertain- 

 ment for his beasts continues, if any damage or injury happens to 

 them, or they be stolen, he is absolutely liable for them to the same 

 extent as if he had undertaken against the particular damage by a 

 special arrangement.— Atlantic Reporter, Vol. 8, Rochester, N. Y., 

 (Del.), 228 



The existence of an inn involves, in legal contemplation, a stable 

 attached to it also, and travelers with horses and carriages are not 

 to be prestimed to put them up at an inn otherwise than as inn 

 stables strictly, whereas those not travelers, but merely putting up 

 their teams at the inn slables as a livery, (as in the case Mith per- 

 sons residing near towns, who use such* slables as mere conven- 

 iences), are not to be considered in the light of guests and entitled 

 to tiie same degree of protection as travelers are. — Atlantic Reporter, 

 Vol. 8, Rochester, N. Y., (Del.), 260. 



If a guest goes to an inn and leaves his horse there with the host and 

 goes away himself for a time, and in his absence the horse is stolen, 

 the host is chargeable on account of the profit arising from the 

 keeping of the horse. — American Decisions, A. C. Freeman, San 

 Fran(!isco, 1880, 254-25 J. 



By the rules of the American Turf Congress the word horse is under- 

 stood to include mare or gelding. 



Horse Breeders' Registry, The, for the registration 

 of trotting and pacing horses, according to established rules 

 and classes. Headquarters, Boston, Mass. Rules governing 

 admission to registry : 



First: Any stallion that has himself a trotting record of 

 2:30 or better, or pacing record of 2:25 or better, provided any 

 of his get has a trotting record of 2:35 or better, or pacing 

 record of 2:30 or better, or provided his sire or dam is aheady 

 standard. 



Second : Any mare or gelding that has a trotting record 

 of 2:30 or better, or pacing record of 2:25 or better. 



Third: Any horse that is the sire of two animals Avith a 

 trotting record of 2.30 or better, or pacing record of 2:25 or 

 better, or one trotter with a record of 2-30 or better, and one 

 pacer with a record of 2:25 or better. 



Fourth : Any horse that is the sire of one animal with 

 a trotting record of 2:30 or better, or pacing record of 2:25 or 



