Ordered that the final order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Supreme Court properly granted the petition to invalidate the designating petition. "Where, as here, a case is tried without a jury, the Appellate Division's `authority is as broad as that of the trial court . . . and as to a bench trial it may render the judgment it finds warranted by the facts'" (Matter of Lehrer v Cavallo,
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