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guest, the innkeeper was held not liable, his want of ordinary 

 care not having been proved.^^^ No private arrangement 

 between the landlord and his hostler can affect the guest, 

 and where, by arrangement with the innkeeper, the hostler 

 took charge of horses and exercised a guest's horse which 

 had been left there and it was frightened by a locomotive and 

 injured, the innkeeper was held liable. ^^^ If the hostler omits 

 to put bits in the mouth of the guest's hired horse whereby 

 it becomes unmanageable and damages the buggy, the guest 

 is liable, as the innkeeper or his servant is not presumed to 

 possess peculiar skill which authorizes the hirer of the animal- 

 to act without responsibility.^^^ And the innkeeper is not 

 responsible for the consequences of the negligent driving of 

 a guest to whom he had hired a horse and vehicle.^^^ And, 

 although licensed to let post-horses, he is not liable to an 

 action for refusing to supply them to a guest.^*" 



Where the guest keeps goods for show or sale, the inn- 

 keeper is relieved from special liability as to such goods, as 

 Vi'here the defendant agreed to keep the plaintiff's stallion for 

 two days in each week during the breeding season and to 

 furnish oats and meals for the man in charge and the horse 

 was lost in a conflagration of the defendant's stable.^*^ So, 

 an innkeeper is not liable, without proof of negligence, for 

 the loss of a mule put by a drover into a lot belonging to 

 the landlord separate from the inn, to be kept under a special 

 agreement. "If one having a drove of horses or hogs to sell, 

 puts up at an inn and, besides entertainment for himself, 

 procures from the landlord a lot in which to keep his animals, 

 for the purpose of showing and selling them, they are not 

 specially protected; and it makes no difference whether, by 

 the agreement, the landlord has them fed or whether the 



"' Thickstun v. Howard, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 535. 



'" Day V. Bather, 2 H. & C. 14. 



=" Hall V. Warner, 60 Barb. (N. Y.) 198. 



"• Baiveau v. Martineau, Montr. L. Rep. 2 Q. B. 133. 



"" Dicas V. Hides, i Stark. 247. "" Mowers v. Fethers, 61 N. Y. 34. 



