Supreme Court DEFENDED DIVORCE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31238, 9 December 1966, Page 9

Supreme Court DEFENDED DIVORCE

Decree Nisi Granted After completing his evidence in the Supreme Court yesterday morning in a divorce case, an inquiry agent was permitted by Mr Justice Wilson to give further evidence of an inspection he had made, a few minutes previously during the Court’s morn-ing-tea break, of premises mentioned in the action. The agent, Shirley William Cunningham, described his visit to a house at 460 Gloucester street, where the petitioner in the case, Grace Alexandra Jones (Mr R. G. Blunt) had alleged her husband, Leslie Howison Jones, a cartage contractor, had been living with Roma Kidd, a married woman, and bad committed adultery with her. Although Cunningham had finished his evidence, the petitioner had not closed her case, said his Honour, and since the application to call the further evidence was not opposed by Mr A. D. Holland (for Jones and Mrs Kidd), it would be permitted. No Defence Evidence His Honour, on the completion of Mrs Jones’s case yesterday afternoon, granted her a decree nisi in divorce. Mr Holland called no evidence, but submitted that the petitioner’s evidence was insufficient to establish adultery. He found it impossible to accept that Jones would have lived in the premises at 400 Gloucester street with Mrs Kidd, as described by Mrs Jones and Cunningham, without the commission of adultery, his Honour said. Even if the defendant parties had given evdence, it would have had to be very substantial indeed to have upset the petitioner’s testimony. Mrs Jones’s case, based on the close association of her husband with Mrs Kidd, was supported by evidence from her son, Leslie George Jones, a clerk, her daughter, Carol Ann Forsythe, a married woman, and her son-in-law, Bruce Ronald Forsythe, a farm worker.