EXPLANATORY NOTE. It should be borne in mind that many of the decisions relating to the Liquor Tax Law contained in this publication are not now authoritative. The Legislature has amended thirty sections of the original statute (see vol. 1, page vii), and the appellatecourts have explained, modified, limited, disapproved and reversed decisions not in harmony with prevailing judicial opinion. An examination of the table of cases will show how any particular decision may affect, or be affected by other decisions in the same case. An examination of the cases cited under any particular decision will also show how such decision may have been considered in such other cases. The excise cases decided prior to the enactment of the Liquor Tax Law will seldom now be found directly in point, but many of the decisions therein bear historically and argumentatively upon questions of construction and practice under the present Liquor Tax Law. Pertinent propositions and phrases have been emphasized or pointed out rather than an accurate syllabus of each decision attempted. For arrangement of decisions under the Liquor Tax Law by subjects, see third, fourth and fifth editions of the Liquor Tax Law, annotated, as published by the State Commissioner of Excise. W. E. S. Lyman v. Plymouth Social Club, N. Y. L. J. June 1898... Lyman v. Young Men's Cosmopolitan Club, N. Y. L. J. December 24, 1898. In re Lyman v. Erie County Athletic Club, 46 App. Div. 387 In re Wood. v. Victory, March 1899, unreported In re Cullinan v. Campbell, 39 Misc. 647 In re McMonagle v. Wainwright, 41 Misc. 412 Matter of Harder v. McNamee, unreported. In re Patterson v. Byrne, 43 Misc. 502 Matter of Lyman v. Gillett, 23 Misc. 710..... Matter of Lyman v. Gramercy Club, N. Y. L. J. January 20, 1898. In re Lyman v. Erie County Athletic Club, 46 App. Div. 387 Matter of Lyman v. Malcolm Brewing Co. unreported.... (affirmed, 40 App. Div. 46; affirmed, 160 N. Y. 96; reargued, 161 N. Y. 119) Matter of Lyman v. Plymouth Social Club, N. Y. L. J. January 20, 1898.. 255 Matter of Lyman v. Shenandoah Social Club, N. Y. L. J. December 1897. Matter of Lyman v. True Friends Social and Literary Circle, N. Y. L. J. In re Lyman v. Shenandoah Social Club, N. Y. L. J. December 1897 Matter of Lyman v. Young Men's Cosmopolitan Club, N. Y. L. J. June 190 Matter of Lyman v. Young Men's Cosmopolitan Club, N. Y. L. J. Decem- |