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 New York Law is instructive. In Matter of Coddington (307 N. Y. 181, 187-191) (then) Conway, J., pointed out that Judge Earl attempted, in Edington v. AEtna Life Ins. Co. (77 N. Y. 564) to confine the statute to information of a confidential nature, but the court did not agree with him on that point. As a result of the cases that followed -- Grattan v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (80 N. Y. 281) and Renihan v. Dennin (103 N. Y. 573) -- in the latter of which Judge Earl suggested legislation, section 836 of the Code of Civil Procedure ...