Sikes v. Sikes

Jordan, Justice.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Fleta Ridley Sikes, appeals the grant of an adverse summary judgment, as well as the denial of a partial summary judgment in her favor.

She commenced her action in Laurens Superior Court in 1972 alleging that she married Matthew Harvey Sikes in 1911, that he abandoned her in 1928, that he has a net worth of $1,000,000 and an annual income between $50,000 and $200,000, directly or indirectly in the name of his purported second wife, Mrs. Helen Dominy Sikes, also named as defendant, from property placed in her name. She prayed for temporary and permanent…