Traveller

One who passes from place to place, whether for pleasure, instruction, business, or health. Lockett v. State, 47 Ala. 45; 10 C. B. N. S. 429. The term is used to designate those who patronize inns; the distance which they travel is not material. Walling v. Potter, 35 Conn. 185. The question whether one is or is not a traveller is one of fact; [1893] 1 Q. B. 522. One would be a traveller if he came abroad from any legitimate motive and needed refreshment, but not if he came abroad merely to go to a public house and obtain a drink; 17 C. B. N. S. 539. Walking for exercise is not travelling; Hamilton v. Boston, 14 Allen (Mass.) 475. Within the meaning of a policy of insurance, one who has been carried by a steamboat and walked eight miles from the landing to his home is not, whilst walking, a traveller by public or private conveyance; Ripley v. Assur. Co., 16 Wall. (U. S.) 336, 21 L. Ed. 469. Within the meaning of a law allowing a person travelling to carry concealed weapons, the travelling must be on a journey beyond the ordinary habit, business, or duties of a person, and beyond the circle of his friends and acquaintances; Gholson v. State, 53 Ala. 520, 25 Am. Rep. 652; Smith v. State, 42 Tex. 464. A horse that had escaped into the highway without his owner's fault and was finding his way home is a traveller within a statute making a town liable for injuries to a traveller; Howrigan v. Bakersfield, 79 Vt. 249, 64 Atl. 1130, 9 Ann. Cas. 282. See Sunday.