Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
"In reviewing a determination made after a nonjury trial, the power of the Appellate Division is as broad as that of the trial court, and this Court may render the judgment it finds `warranted by the facts,' bearing in mind that in a close case, the trial judge had the advantage of seeing the witnesses" (Fernandez v State of New York,
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