HOTEL
A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 13
Under the term "inn" the law includes all taverns, hotels, and houses of public general entertainment for guests. Code Ga. 1882, § 2114. The words "inn," "tavern," and "hotel" are used synonymously to designate what is ord i- · narily and popularly known as an "inn" or "tavern," or place for the entertainment of travelers, and where all their wants can be supplied. A restaurant where meals only are furnished is not an inn or tavern. People v. Jones, 54 'Barb. (N. Y.) 311; Carpenter v. Taylor, 1 Hilt. (N. Y.) 193. An inn is distinguished from a private boarding-house mainly in this: that the keeper of the latter is at liberty to cboose his guests, while the innkeeper is obliged to entertain and furnish all travQlers of good conduct and means of payment with what they may have occasion for, as such travelers, while on their way Pinkerton v. Woodward, 83 Cal. 557, 91 Am. Dec. 657. ' The distinction between a boarding-house and an inn is that in the former the ifUest is under an expre contract for a certain time at a certain rate; in the latter the guest is entertained from day to day upon an implied contract. Willard v. Reinhardt, 2 El D. Smith (N. Y.)'148. --Oom.mon inn. A house for the entertainment of travelers and p8Jlllengers, in which lodging and l!eCl! aries are ·provided for them ancf for their horses and attendants. Cromwell T. Stepheu, 2, DalJ (N. Y.) UL The word [s. 634]
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