public highway

public highway
A way for the use of the public; a highway. For the purposes of an accident insurance policy which contains a provision for compensation for injuries received on a public highway:–any way used by the public in going from one place to another, such as a platform at a railroad depot used by the public for the purpose of going to and from trains. Rudd v Great Eastern Casualty & Indem. Co. 114 Minn 512, 131 NW 633.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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