
    Matter of the Application of Franklin B. Lord, for the Revocation and Cancellation of Liquor Tax Certificate No. 11,536, Issued to Patrick Coughlin.
    (Supreme Court, New York Special Term,
    July, 1900.)
    Liquor Tax Law — Consents cannot be filed nunc pro tunc.
    The Liquor Tax Law requires the necessary consents of the owners of dwellings to be filed before a certificate is issued, and the court has no power, after a citizen has applied to have the certificate revoked, to permit the holder thereof to file such consents nunc pro tunc.
    
    Application for an order revoking and cancelling a liquor tax certificate.
    Lord, Day & Lord, for petitioner.
    Lindsay & Griffin, for respondent.
   O’Gorman, J.

The liquor Tax Law makes distinct provision for the filing of the necessary consents before the issue of the certificate. No right is reserved to this court to order the filing of consents thereafter. The filing of papers nunc pro tunc is a practice peculiar to the conduct of judicial proceedings, but where a right to a certificate is dependent upon the applicant’s prior compliance with certain statutory requirements the court possesses no authority in a summary application of this character to relieve an applicant from the consequences of his neglect to observe those requirements. While the act provides for certain proceedings to vacate or cancel a certificate, and to review the action of an officer who'refuses to issue a license, the proceeding now before the court is of an entirely different character, and does not seem to be within the contemplation of the liquor Tax Law. Even if the power invoked does reside in the court, its exercise would not be proper under the circumstances disclosed.

Application denied.  