Persons engaged in two important occupations are subject to an especial degree of liability as bailees on account of the quasi public character of the business in which they are engaged, and also on account of the high degree of reliance which those dealing with them are, of necessity, obliged to place in them. These two occupations are those of common carriers and inn-keepers. The liability of common carriers is treated in the next subject;1 that of inn-keepers in the next section.