Opinion
Argued October 12, 1976
Decided November 16, 1976
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, LYMAN H. SMITH, J.
Donald E. Grossfield for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (John Q. Driscoll and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for respondents.
Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinion by Mr. Justice FRANK DEL VECCHIO at the Appellate Division except insofar as the opinion refers to the necessity for importing particular procedural safeguards into this arbitration proceeding under CPLR article 75.
Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE.