Ruff v. Hanson

The common-law ininkeeper’s lien is the right to retain the personal baggage of the guest until his bill is paid. Hickman v. Thomas, 16 Ala. 666; 27 C. J. 340.

Code, § 8933, declares a lien in favor of “keepers of hotels, inns, boarding houses, and restaurants.”

One purpose is to extend like protection to keepers of boarding houses, etc. Semple School for Girls v. Yielding, 16 Ala. App. 584, 80 So. 158.

The distinction between inns or hotels and boarding houses is defined in Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen, 175 Ala. 338, 355, 57 So. 876, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 1037, and cases there…