THE LAW OF Inns, Hotels and Boarding Houses. A TREATISE UPON THE RELATION OF HOST CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF INNS. Doctor Johnson once said, "there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness has been produced, as by a good tavern or inn." When we consider the importance of inns in the business and commercial intercourse of men and countries, the thousands of persons who are daily fed and lodged under the care and hospitality of "public entertainers," the necessity of the inn to the development and prosperity of any country, we may form some conception of the importance of that branch of jurisprudence which defines the duties and responsibilities of the innkeeper on the one hand, and |