This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol5 Sales, Personal Property, Bailments, Carriers, Patents, Copyrights", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
There cannot be a bailment of a person, and therefore carriers of passengers are not bailees as to the passengers themselves. Carriers of passengers, however, are engaged in a quasi public occupation, similar to that of common carriers, and their liabilities are, therefore, properly treated under this subject. Carriers of passengers also, are bailees as to the baggage of their passengers. Carriers of Passengers will be the subject of Chapter IV (Creation And General Incidents Of The Bailment Relation. Section 8. Creation Of The Bailment Relation) of this Subject.
7 Piedmont Mfg. Co. vs. Columbia, etc., R. Co., 19 S. C, 353; Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld., Raym., 909, 917.
8 Varble vs. Bigley, 14 Bush. (Ky.),
698, 29 Am. Rep., 435.
9 Fish vs. Clark, 49 N. Y., 122, 6
Cyc, p. 364.
 
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