Stone v. Stone

The July 4, 1965, marriage of Susan and Norman Stone was dissolved by decree of divorce entered December 6, 1967. Appealing from that order, Mrs. Stone challenges the court’s conclusion that a child bom to her on December 6, 1966, is not the legitimate offspring of that marriage.

Connubial bliss was of short duration for the Stones — in fact, it lasted less than 1 year. Almost immediately they started quarreling; they argued about their in-laws and they bickered about her schooling; he physically abused her, frightened her with a gun and struck her on the head with a duffel bag. She carried on…