Opinion
Argued May 31, 1977
Decided June 30, 1977
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, JOHN T. CASEY, J.
Peter H. Schiff and Howard J. Read for appellant.
W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel (John C. Brennan, L. Kevin Sheridan and Alexander Gigante, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.
Robert M. Morgenthau, New York County District Attorney (Ann Elizabeth Lewis, Peter L. Zimroth and Robert M. Pitler of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.
Sol Greenberg, Albany County District Attorney (George H. Barber of counsel), for intervenor-respondent. Michael R. Wolford for Rochester Telephone Corporation and another, amici curiae. George A. Ashley, Raymond F. Burke and Robert E. Scannell for New York Telephone Company, amicus curiae. Edward F. Skoda for General Telephone Company of Upstate New York, Inc., amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinions by Mr. Justice J. CLARENCE HERLIHY at the Appellate Division ( 53 A.D.2d 164) and by Mr. Justice JOHN T. CASEY at Special Term.
Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE.