Guest

A traveler who stays at an inn from day to day, for pay, and without a special contract to board for any definite time. If he is invited as a friend by the innkeeper, he is not a "guest" in the technical sense (Bac. Abr. "Inns," c. 5), and, if he stays under a contract for a definite time, he is not a guest, but a boarder (6 Barb. [N. Y.] 560; 26 Ala. [N. S.] 377; 26 Vt. 332). The distinction between a guest and a boarder seems to be this: The guest comes without any bargain for time, remains without one, and may go when he pleases, paying only for the actual entertainment which he receives; and it is not enough to make a boarder, and not a guest, that he has stayed a long time in the inn in this way.

25 Ia. 555.