IN RE DODGE ESTATE

Docket No. 83736.

162 Mich. App. 573 (1987)

413 N.W.2d 449

In re DODGE ESTATE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided July 27, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams, Schaefer, Ruby & Williams, P.C. (by James P. Cunningham), for Frances Manzer Mealbach.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling (by Louis F. Dahling, Joseph A. Sullivan and Charles N. Raimi), for Joseph Freedman, Personal Representative of the Estate of Winifred Dodge Seyburn, and the Matilda R. Wilson Fund.

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (by Henry M. Grix), and Thomas E. Owen, of Counsel, for Edith Seyburn Quintana, Isabel Seyburn Harte, Winifred Seyburn Cheston and Suzanne Seyburn Meyer.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Raymond T. Huetteman, Jr., John F. Dykema and Terrence E. Haggerty), for Fredericka Van Lennep Caldwell, John F. Van Lennep and Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit, as Trustee Under the Will of Frances Dodge Van Lennep.

Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait (by Thomas E. Coulter, John D. Mabley and Timothy W. Hefferon), for Mary Ann Dodge Danaher.

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (by Charles Nida, Marguerite Munson Lentz and Susan D. Hoffman), for Judith Johnson McClung.

Barbier, Goulet, Petersmarck, Tolleson, Mead & Paige, P.C. (by Roy M. Tolleson, Jr., and Robert D. Welchli), for Frederick L. Van Lennep.

Before: HOOD, P.J., and T.M. BURNS and J.X. THEILER, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

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...

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