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TIonSE WAUKANTY 



Definition 

 of an inu. 



Duties of 

 inn- 

 keepers. 



An inn is defined in TItompson v. Ldoj (*') to be 

 a " lionso wlioro tlio traveller is furnished with 

 everything ho has occasion for while on his way." 

 A person Avho keeps an inn has certain rosponsi- 

 Lilities imposed on him wlilch may he called lia- 

 Ijilities, and certain privileges which maybe called 

 rights. As was before stated, it is generally ad- 

 mitted that an innkeeper undertakes to reeoive and 

 entertain all travellers until his house is filled, and 

 an innkeeper by opening a common inn in the 

 country undertakes to receive and keep the horses 

 of those who come to his inn (./'). Sometimes a 

 dilliculty arises in determining who is a traveller; 

 but a bona tide traveller has a right to be provided 

 for in an inn if there is room both for himself and 

 liis horse (^), and a refusal by an innkeeper to give 

 accommodation may subject him to an indict- 

 ment (//). Under the old law an innkeeper, tliough 

 licensed to lot post-horses, could refuse to supply 

 a chaise and horses to enable a guest to resume 

 his journey, even though tend(n'ed a reasonable 

 sum (/) ; nor is ho bound to provide for his guest 

 the precise room the latter may choose to select: 

 nil tliat lie is required to do is to find reasonable 



(«•) 3 B. & A. 286. 



(/) Jonei V. Oibomr, 2 Chitty, 484 ; and Saunders v. Plummer, 

 Orl. Bridg. 227. 



{(/) Hauthorii v. llammoinl, 1 C. k K. 107; iV// v. Knight, 8 

 M. & "\V. 200. 



(A) li. V. /.<•«», 7 C. k P. 213. 



(i) Jhcan V. //iV/r», 1 Stnrkio, 247. 



