SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM DECISIONS OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. WITH NOTES BY AUSTIN ABBOTT. WITH AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO ALL POINTS OF 1 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1886, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. HENRY M. TOBITT, 42 DEY STREET, N. Y. TO THE READER. IN consequence of many requests for a general index to the cases contained in this series of reports, and for a Table of Cases Cited, an Index-Digest has been prepared in a separate volume, which contains tables of the cases reported in the first fifteen volumes, the cases affirmed, reversed, &c.; a table of all the cases cited in the opinions, and in the notes in those volumes, as well as of the Codes, Constitutions, Statutes and Rules of Court, and an Analytical Index to all the cases and notes in those volumes. The following volumes, commencing with the present one, will each contain a table of all the cases cited in the opinions and the notes (see p. xi.), in addition to the usual tables and indices of the former volumes. [iii] |