GUEST. A traveller who stays at an inn or tavern-with the consent of the 
keeper: Bac. Ab. Inns, C 5; 8 Co. 32. And if, after having taken lodgings at 
an inn, he leaves his horse there, and goes elsewhere to lodge, he is still 
to be considered a guest. But not if he merely leaves goods for which the 
landlord receives no compensation. 1 Salk. 888; 2 Lord Raym. 866; Cro. Jac. 
188. The length of time a man is at an inn makes no difference, whether he 
stays a day, or a week, or a month, or longer, so always, that, though not 
strictly transient, he retains his character as a traveller. But if a person 
comes upon a special contract to board and sojourn at an inn, he is not in 
the sense of the law a guest, but a boarder. Bac. Ab. Inns, C. 5; Story, 
Bailm. Sec. 477. 
     2. Innkeepers are generally liable for all goods belonging to the guest, 
brought within the inn. It is not necessary that the goods should have been 
in the special keeping of the innkeeper to male him liable. This rule is 
founded on principles of public utility, to which all private considerations 
ought to yield. 2 Kent, Com. 459; 1 Hayw. N. C. Rep. 40; 14 John. R. 175; 
Dig. 4, 9, 1. Vide 8 Barb. & Ald. 283; 4 Maule & Selw. 306; 1 Holt's N. P. 
209; 1 Salk. 387; S. C. Carth. 417; 1 Bell's Com. 469 Dane's Ab. Index, h. 
t.; Yelv. 67, a; Smith's Leading Cases, 47; 8 Co. 32.