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IN RE ADOPTION OF KNOX

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

381 Mich. 582 (1969)

165 N.W.2d 1

In re ADOPTION OF KNOX. KNOX v. REID.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 3, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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 Mallette. His mother died shortly thereafter. In 1911, Franklin was adopted by W. Frank Knox and Annie Reid Knox, his uncle and aunt. The validity of those proceedings is not...

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