Scallen v. State Health Commissioner

This appeal is taken by leave granted from an order of the trial court directing the defendant State health commissioner to change the birth records of the health department to show February 13, 1890 as the date of birth of plaintiff, a- judge of the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit. A statutory hearing in circuit court was held upon a petition filed December 21, 1960, pursuant to CLS 1961, § 326.17 (Stat Ann 1956 Rev § 14.237), after the health commissioner had refused plaintiff’s request to make such change in his record of birth.

Plaintiff claims that until 1956 he believed he had…