[227] Kennard v. Burton, 25 Me. 39.
[228] Grier v. Sampson, 27 Penn. St. 183.
[229] Jaquith v. Richardson, 8 Met. 213; Smith v. Dygert, 12 Barb. 613.
[230] Gilberton v. Richardson, 5 C. B. 502.
[231] Graves v. Shattuck, 35 N. H. 257.
[232] Wolf v. Summers, 2 Camp. 631.
[233] Sunbolf v. Alford, 3 M. & W. 248.
CHAPTER VI.
DINING, RAINING, LOSING, AND ENDING.
Must wait at Stopping-places.—Place booked taken at any Time.—Falling in ascending.—Drenched with Rain.—Coachmen are Common Carriers, and liable as such.—Loss of Money.—Loss of Luggage.—Dangerous Short Cut.—Bridges.—Safe Arrival.
The driver, annoyed at the loss of his fare, said he would drive ahead at once and not wait, as he usually did at this place, for his passengers to take refreshments, but as my wife was hungry and the old maids thirsty, I insisted upon his remaining; for a carrier has no right to deviate from established usages to gratify his own whims and fancies.[234] While we were partaking of a cold collation, portions of which, doubtless, had done duty on several former occasions, a gentleman arrived at the inn, and from his conversation with the driver I quickly perceived that he had paid his fare for the whole way from town to our journey’s end, and that he now intended to take his seat, as he clearly had a right to do.[235] He, too, was booked for an inside place, and protested strongly because sufficient room had not been left for him, saying that as more than the legal number were already on board, he would not get on but would sue the proprietor for all expenses he might be put to in performing the remainder of his journey by another conveyance.[236]