"Fantastic Suggestion"

Britain's highest court last week put an end to four years of legal wrangling, ruled that a man whose wife had a normal baby 360 days after he last saw her is entitled to a divorce on grounds of adultery. By a four-to-one majority the Law Lords of the House of Lords granted a decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords noted that various British courts have held in the past that births after periods of 331, 346 and even 349 days were not impossible, but added: "It would appear a fantastic suggestion . . . that a normal child could be born 360 days after the last intercourse."

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