local freight

local freight
Freight shipped from either terminus of a railroad to a way station, or vice versa, or from one way station to another, that is, over a part of the one railroad only. Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co. v Steiner, McGehee & Co. 61 Ala 559, 579.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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