Boarder

One who, by a special contract, obtains food, with or without lodging, in the house of another. To be distinguished from a guest (q. v.) ■ Story, Bailm. § 477; 26 Vt. 343; 26 Ala. (N. S.) 371; 7 Cush. (Mass.) 417.

One who makes a special contract with another person for food with or without lodging. Berkshire Woollen Co v. Proctor, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 424; Pollock v. Landis, 36 la. 651. To be distinguished from a guest of an innkeeper; Story, Bailm. § 477; Mc Daniels v. Robinson, 26 Vt. 343, 62 Am. Dec. 574; Chamberlain v. Masterson, 2(> Ala. 371; Berkshire Woollen Co. v. Proctor, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 417. See Edwards, Bailments § 456. In a boarding-house, the guest is under an express contract, at a certain rate, for a certain time; but in an inn there is usually no express engagement: the guest, being on his way, is. entertained from day to day according to his business, upon an implied contract; Willard v. Reinhardt, 2 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 148: Stewart v. Mc Cready. 24 Bow. Pr. (N. Y.) 62; Cady v. Mc Dowell, 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 484. There is a duty on the part of a boarding house keeper to take reasonable care for the safety of property brought by a guest into his house, and evidence of refusal to furnish a key of the bed roam and also for a chesl of drawers therein was sufficient to go to the jury as a breach of that duty; [1905] 2 K. B. 805, in the English Court of Appeal. where the prior cases are examined and criticized, and Danzy v. Richardson, 3 E. & B. 144, is approved. Holder v. Soulley, 8 C. B. N. S. 254, not followed, and Ca lye's Case, 8 Co. 32a, explained. See note in 31 Mai:. L. Rev. 226; Bailment; Innkeeper.

A person who is furnished with food statedly at the table of another, or with food and lodging in his hou Fe, for stipulated compensation. A person who comes to an inn upon a special contract to board and to sojourn is a boarder, not a guest.