Public Conveyances, whether on land or water, are known to the law as
common carriers, and they, too, have obligations, not unlike those of
inns. Common carriers are grouped with innkeepers, especially in duty
to passengers. Here again the learned Judge is our authority:--
“The first and most general obligation on their part is to
carry passengers, whenever they offer themselves and are ready
to pay for their transportation. _This results from their
setting themselves up, like innkeepers and common carriers of
goods, for a common public employment, on hire._ They are no
more at liberty to refuse a passenger, if they have sufficient
room and accommodation, than an innkeeper is to refuse suitable
room and accommodations to a guest.”[194]