TRAVELERS, LAW AS TO. In the United Kingdom, entire freedom of traveling is one of the rights of the subject. The rights of travelers in regard to the use of roads are stated under the head of highway (q.v.). Other rights are noticed in connection with inn (q.v.). With regard to travelers by conveyances, whether by land or sea, if the party conveying is a public carrier, then the following are his liabilities: A public carrier having a stage-coach (and railway companies are on the same footing) does not engage or warrant to convey a traveler with absolute safety, as is the case with respect to goods, but merely to convey without negligence on his part; hence, if the convey ance meets with some accident, resulting in injury to the traveler, the right of the hit ter to recover damages depends on whether the carrier or railway company has been guilty of negligence. Considering that, in ease of a dispute, it is always left to a jury to say whether there was negligence or not, it is a safe maxim, that there is scarcely anything in the form of an accident which is not resolvable by a jury into negligence on the part of the carrier or company; and an injured traveler has sel dom much difficulty iu throwing the burden on the carrier of proving that there was no negligence on his part ; and this proof, for the reasons stated, is seldom successful, at least where the accident arose from a defect in guiding the carriage. In case of
accidents not fatal, the party injured has almost always a remedy against the carrier, the chief dispute being as to the amount of damages, the amount legally demanda ble varying according to the position in life and injury to business caused by the accident. In case of death caused by blamable accident in traveling, there was formerly no remedy available to the executors or relatives, and there is none at the present day; but if the deceased party leave a wife, husband, parent, or child, then these, but no other relations, can sue for damages. In the case of a traveler's proceeding a great distance over several lines of railway, his remedy is entirely against the company with whom he contracted—that is to say, to whom he paid the lump sum, and from whom he obtained his ticket. A carrier may contract not merely to carry a traveler a certain distance by his own conveyance, but to carry him to any part of the world, using for that purpose various other intermediate railways or steamers for the rest of the journey; and in all such cases the only person with whom the traveler con tracts is the carrier to whom he paid his fare, who is liable for any accident or negli gence, whether occurring on his own part of the line, or on any other part.—As to trav eler's luggage, see LUGGAGE.