street

A highway or public thoroughfare in an urban community, such as a city, town, or village. 25 Am J1st High § 7. A kind of highway, the public having the right to use it for purposes of travel. Chicago Motor Coach Co. v Chicago, 337 Ill 200, 169 NE 22, 66 ALR 834; Graff v Casper, 73 Wyo 486, 281 P2d 685, 52 ALR2d 254. While the term does not include the mere private way, it does include all the public roads or ways within the municipality over which it has jurisdiction and as to which it owes the public the duty of exercising reasonable care to keep them and maintain them in reasonably safe condition for public use. Indian Rocks Beach South Shore, Inc. v Ewell (Fla) 59 So 2d 647, 32 ALR2d 940. The term is not applicable to rural highways. Some authorities take the view that the term is generic, embracing all urban ways which can be, and are generally, used for ordinary purposes of travel. Others limit the application of the term to thoroughfares in the built-up portions of the urban territory. 25 Am J1st High § 7. There are cases pro and con on the question whether a statutory regulation of "highway" traffic is applicable to traffic upon a "street." 7 Am J2d Auto § 170. The word means more than the surface; it means the whole surface and as much of the depth as is, or can be, used, not unfairly, for the ordinary purpose of a street. It comprises a depth which authorizes the urban authority to do that which is done in every street, namely, to raise the street, and lay down sewers, and also to lay down gas and water pipes. Cornwall v Garrison, 59 Idaho 287, 81 P2d 1094. A street may include a dock or a part of a dock; as where a private dock is built on a public street on the shore of navigable waters, the dock becomes a part of the street, and the public has a right to travel over it. Pan-Pacific Constr. Co. v Meadows, 85 Cal App 775, 260 P 355. "Lot" and "street" are two separate and distinct terms, and have separate and distinct meanings. The term "lots" in its common and ordinary meaning, includes that portion of the platted territory measured and set apart for individual and private use and occupancy, while the term "streets" means that portion set apart and designated for the use of the public. Earl v Dutour, 181 Cal 58, 183 P 438, 6 ALR 1163, 1164.