
    In the Matter of William Friedman et al., Respondents, v Albert D’Antoni, as Chairman and Administrative Head of the Workmen’s Compensation Board of the State of New York, et al., Appellants.
    Argued March 29, 1977;
    decided April 7, 1977
    
      
      Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (William J. Kogan and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for appellants.
    
      John T. DeGraff, Algird F. White, Jr., and Robert H. Iseman for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinion by then Presiding Justice J. Clarence Herlihy at the Appellate Division (50 AD2d 9; see, also, Ball v State of New York, 41 NY2d 617).

Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke.  