In re the Will of Reardon

John D. Bennett, S.

In this probate proceeding the contestants move to examine all the records of the Brooklyn State Hospital pertaining to the decedent, pursuant to sections 20 and 34 of the Mental Hygiene Law.

*308While sections 20 and 34 of the Mental Hygiene Law authorize access to such records by order of a court of record (Matter of Clayton, 9 Misc 2d 63), the Attorney-General opposes the motion on the ground that the decedent’s admission to the hospital on February 7, 1939, is too remote in time to have any relevancy to the question of the decedent’s testamentary capacity on the date the…