Ghosson v. Stewart's Estate

Susie Mae Ghosson is the mother of John Earl Stewart, a minor, and, as his guardian, the plaintiff herein. Edward Stewart, deceased, whose estate is the defendant, was his father. These parents never intermarried. Years after the hirth of the son the father married Annie Mae Stewart, his surviving widow.

In 1943 plaintiff filed in the "Wayne county probate court a petition for her appointment as guardian of her son wherein she represented herself to be the mother and Edward Stewart to he the father. On the petition appears a consent and waiver signed by Edward Stewart, which reads as follows :

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