traveler

One who is traveling. One who spends much time in traveling. One using a public way. One who travels in any way, even for a short distance and in the city, town, or village of his residence. Leon v Kitchen Bros. Hotel Co. 134 Neb 137, 277 NW 823,115 ALR 1078. As one for whom a public way must be kept reasonably safe, anyone rightfully using the way viatically or who has occasion to pass over the way for the purpose of business, convenience, or pleasure. 25 Am J1st High § 427. As a person entitled to carry a concealed weapon, one who travels such distance from his home that he goes beyond the circle of his general acquaintances, among strangers with whose habits, conduct, and character he is not acquainted. 56 Am J1st Weap § 15. A radio repairman sitting in a customer's car parked in the street outside his shop, when his work on the car was interrupted by a rainstorm, is not a "traveler" on the highway, within a statute imposing on cities the duty to keep the highway safe for "travelers." Wershba v Lynn, 324 Mass 327, 86 NE2d 511, 14 ALR2d 179. See travel; wayfarer.