In Re Dodge Estate

This is an appeal as of right from the Wayne County Probate Court’s grant of accelerated judgment to the respondent heirs of the children of John F. Dodge on Frances Manzer Mealbach’s petition for determination of heirs and from an order dismissing Mealbach’s petition for production of adoption records. According to Mrs. Mealbach’s pleadings, she is the previously unknown Siamese twin of Frances Matilda Dodge (Van Lennep) (also referred to as Mathilda), daughter of John F. Dodge and Matilda Rausch (Dodge).

As reported in a number of previous Michigan appellate decisions, John F. Dodge was an…