In Re Adoption of Knox

381 Mich. 582 (1969)

165 N.W.2d 1

In re ADOPTION OF KNOX.

KNOX

v.

REID.

Calendar No. 4, Docket No. 51,902.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 3, 1969.

James Thomas Sloan, Jr., and Jerry J. O'Connor, for plaintiff.

Warner, Norcross & Judd (Thomas J. McNamara and Conrad A. Bradshaw, of counsel), for defendants.

ADAMS, J.

This case, commenced August 31, 1964, challenges the validity of adoption proceedings completed on July 17, 1917. A decree is sought declaring the 1917 order confirming the adoption to be void.

Franklin Mallette was born November 13, 1909, to Edith Knox Mallette and Jay Elmer…