Beatty v. Brooking

I concur, on the ground that a judgment of the Oakland county probate court bars the plaintiff from questioning the defendant’s status as her mother.

Frances Beatty brought this lawsuit to establish that Alice Brooking is not her lawful mother. Apparently she did this to be relieved of any obligation to support Alice Brooking.

There is an order of the probate court of Wayne county, almost a half century old, by which it appears that Alice - Brooking and her husband, Clifford, adopted the plaintiff, Frances Beatty, when she was a child of tender years. But Frances *586Beatty contends that she was…