State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““In the state’s brief it is contended that a restaurant or lunch room is a hotel or inn and also a boarding house within the meaning of the statute. The words ‘hotel’ and ‘inn’ are practically synonymous (4 Words and Phrases, 3625; 2 Words and Phrases, 2d series, 1083, 1084), although a distinction between them is sometimes made, as by calling an inn of the better class a hotel (Webster’s International Dictionary). An inn, as the term is ordinarily used, offers to travelers both lodging and food. (See Words and Phrases, title ‘Inn.’) ‘A coffee-house or a mere eating house is not an inn. To constitute an inn there must be some provision for the essential needs of a traveler upon his journey, namely, lodging as well as food.’ (Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, Rawle’s Third Revision, 1582.) ‘The keeper of a restaurant who has no beds for the accommodation of travelers is not an innkeeper; ... a mere restaurant or eating house is not an inn.’ (Wandell’s Law of Inns, etc., 27.) ‘The keeper of a restaurant or café, so far as those terms are used to designate a mere eating house, where no provision is made for lodging the guest, is not an innkeeper.’ (16 A. & E. Encycl. of L. 512.) “A boarding house differs from an inn or hotel both in being less public in character and in arranging with its guests to provide for them during some more or less definite period. (8 C. J. 1132; 16 A. & E. Encycl. of L. 510, 511; 4 Words and Phrases 3624.) The same considerations would obviously distinguish it ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Independence v. Richardson